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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 87. Chapters: 19th-century executions by the United States, John Brown, Nat Turner, Jereboam O. Beauchamp, Albert Parsons, H. H. Holmes, Mary Surratt, David Owen Dodd, Charles J. Guiteau, Wallace Wilkerson, Crawford Goldsby, Henry Wirz, William P. Longley, Tiburcio Vasquez, Tom Dula, Washington Goode, Danny Driscoll, Lewis Powell, Theodore Durrant, Denmark Vesey, John D. Lee, Lavinia Fisher, Philip Spencer, Marcellus Jerome Clarke, William Kemmler, Adolph Fischer, Albert W. Hicks, Champ Ferguson, Noah Beauchamp, David Herold, Alexander Campbell, Kintpuash, Aaron Dwight Stevens, Nathaniel Gordon, Johnny Dolan, August Spies, George Engel, George Atzerodt, Patrick Eugene Prendergast, Arbuthnot and Ambrister incident, William Bruce Mumford, Jack McCall, Frankie Stewart Silver, Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh, Jason Fairbanks, Emeline Meaker, Martha M. Place, Anthony Blair, Jonathan Walker, John Gordon, Mike McGloin, Chipita Rodriguez, James Arcene, John McCaffary, Edward H. Rulloff, Bernard Friery, Gullah Jack, Daniel Wilkinson, Carlyle Harris, Elisha Small, Nicholas Saul, Slobbery Jim, Danny Lyons, Ann Bilansky, Boston Charley, Roxana Flowers, Edward Coleman, Lavinia Burnett, Samuel Cromwell, Antoine le Blanc, Charles Hudspeth. Excerpt: John Brown (May 9, 1800 - December 2, 1859) was a revolutionary abolitionist in the United States, who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to abolish slavery for good. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre during which five men were killed in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859. Later that year he was tried and executed for treason against the state of Virginia, murder, and conspiracy. Brown has been called "the most controversial of all 19th-century Americans." Brown's attempt in 1859 to start a liberation movement among enslaved African...
