This person is depicted kissing a black baby while walking down some steps in a Thomas Hovenden painting depicting his "Last Moments."
This person is depicted kissing a black baby while walking down some steps in a Thomas Hovenden painting depicting his "Last Moments." He was described as a "meteor of the war" in Herman Melville's poem "The Portent." This man was painted holding a rifle and a Bible in front of a tornado in a mural by John Steuart Curry, a Regionalist from the state where this man was most active. (*) Julia Ward Howe sanitized the lyrics of a tune title for this man after his execution. In response to the sacking of Lawrence, this man hacked five pro-slavery settlers to death in the Pottawatomie Massacre, during Bleeding Kansas. In 1859, Robert E. Lee helped arrest this man in Virginia. For 10 points, name this radical abolitionist who led a failed raid on Harpers Ferry.
This person is depicted kissing a black baby while walking down some steps in a Thomas Hovenden painting depicting his "Last Moments."
John Brown