(CASED IMAGE) Portrait of John Brown

Sale 2158 - Lot 6

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(CASED IMAGE)
Portrait of John Brown. Sixth-plate ruby glass ambrotype; in a thermoplastic case. Circa 1859

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This cased image was made from the rare albumen portrait by James Wallace Black, which Black had actually created after the original daguerreotype by Martin M. Lawrence of Brown made in Boston.
John Brown is infamous for his raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859, the same period in which this photograph was taken. The violent methods Brown employed to protest slavery were not practiced by the majority of abolitionists, who prided themselves on more pacifist modes of protest. The raid at Harper's Ferry is widely considered one of the integral events leading to the secession of the Southern states, and eventually, the Civil War. Indicted for causing a slavery insurrection and for the killing of several pro-slavery Virginians, Brown was famously hung for treason on December 2, 1859.