Prior to this event, its organizer hired the autho
Prior to this event, its organizer hired the author of Manual for the Patriotic Volunteer, Hugh Forbes, to train participants, but Forbes informed on this event to future Vice-President Henry Wilson after not being paid. Thomas Wentworth Higginson was one of the "Secret Six," who sponsored it, After failing in this event, a man wrote that the "crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood" before he was executed. Both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass declined to participate in this event, whose leader was captured by a group of Marines led by Robert E. Lee. For 10 points, name this failed 1859 raid on an arsenal in modern-day West Virginia, carried out by a fanatical abolitionist.
Prior to this event, its organizer hired the author of Manual for the Patriotic Volunteer, Hugh Forbes, to train participants, but Forbes informed on this event to future Vice-President Henry Wilson after not being paid.
John Brown's raid [or the raid at Harpers Ferry]