2652844 Harper\'s Ferry insurrection - Interior of the Engine-House, just before the gate is broken down by the storming party - Col. Washington and his associates as captives, held by Brown as hostages, pub. 1859 (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: John Brown (1800-60) was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.); The Stapleton Collection; American, out of copyright.