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The Harpers Ferry rebellion was an armed confrontation prior to the Civil War, in which a group of abolitionists led by John Brown attempted to provoke a rebellion of black slaves in the southern states of the United States, inciting them to rise up against their white masters.
On October 16, 1859, abolitionists occupied the federal government armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, with the intention of impacting the slaveholders, as well as using the stolen weapons to arm slaves from the surrounding plantations and march to the south.
Quickly informed of the attack, the army reacted and put down the uprising within two days. The leader of the uprising, John Brown, was convicted of treason and publicly hanged.
The rebellion resulted in additional tension in the already tense relations between the northern and southern states of the United States, being a fundamental previous chapter in understanding the emergence of the Civil War.
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