Texas auction house to sell John Brown leg irons

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Guardian / AP

Associated Press= MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The leg irons that restrained abolitionist John Brown after his failed 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry are being sold Saturday in Texas, but two historical parks dedicated to his legacy can't afford to bid on them

Dallas-based Heritage Auctions estimates the shackles are worth at least $10,000, but some Brown memorabilia has fetched much more. In 2007, a rare daguerreotype sold for $97,750 at a Cincinnati auction.

John Boling of Buhl, Idaho, whose family has long owned them, said his family hopes that whoever buys the shackles will display them publicly.

"We believe that history should be learned and understood," said Boling, whose great-great-great-grandfather, Hezekiah Atwood Jr., apparently obtained them shortly after Brown's execution on Dec. 2, 1859, in what is today West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle.

History long regarded Brown as a domestic terrorist, and some Southerners still do. Many scholars consider Brown and his raid to be flash points, hastening the start of the Civil War.

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[Kolesar]

1. John Brown recruited many of his raiders in Ashtabula, Ohio just east of Cleveland

Ashtabula was a northern terminus of the Underground Railroad. The Western Reserve Greenway/bike trail has a number of interpretive placards about the Abolitionists. The trail leads north for fifty miles to Ashtabula.

[theHandpuppet]

2. Damn. I hope these are contributed to a museum.

The National Underground Freedom Center in Cincinnati might be a good choice. Here's an article on their latest exhibit, on modern-day human trafficking:


http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130620/NEWS/306200021/The-battle-against-human-trafficking

[marble falls]

3. They need to go to his museum home in Akron, Ohio....

http://www.summithistory.org/Community/museum_johnbrown.html

[Cooley Hurd]

4. ...or his museum farm amd gravesite in Lake Placid, NY.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_Farm_and_Gravesite

[marble falls]

7. Where he spent only two years of his life. He lived half of his life in Akron, Hudson and Ken,Ohio.

[Cooley Hurd]

9. he chose to be buried there.

[marble falls]

10. It was the choice of his widow...

In 1848, Brown heard of Gerrit Smith's Adirondack land grants to poor black men, and decided to move his family among the new settlers. He bought land near North Elba, New York (near Lake Placid), for $1 an acre, and spent 2 years there.[23] After he was executed, his wife took his body there for burial. Since 1895, the farm has been owned by New York state.[24] The John Brown Farm and Gravesite is now a National Historic Landmark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_%28abolitionist%29

[vkkv]

5. When are TX, OK, AZ, KS and the South going to secede so we can get going on that border fence?

When are TX, OK, AZ, KS and the South going to secede so we can get going on that border fence?

[Paladin]

6. Hold your breath until it happens. (nt)

[Archae]

8. John Brown was executed on December 2nd, 1859.

I was born December 2nd, 1959.

Hmmm...