Skeleton of a provisional constitution and ordinances of the people of the U.S., and related letter to his family : [Chatham, Ont.], [1858].

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Skeleton of a provisional constitution and ordinances of the people of the U.S., and related letter to his family : [Chatham, Ont.], [1858].

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Holograph manuscript, with corrections, undated, written by John Brown. This provisional constitution was adopted by a convention of Brown and his followers in Chatham, Ontario, in 1858, as part of a plan to free Southern slaves. The manuscript is annotated in an unidentified hand: "Handed to Gov. Wise by John Brown on Wed Oct 19/59 before he was removed from the U.S. grounds at Harpers Ferry & while he lay wounded on his cot." A related ALS, dated May 1, 1858, 1 p., written by Brown at Chatham to his wife, Mary Anne Day Brown, and children, discusses arrival of his friends in Chatham and means of provision for their families.

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Brown, Mary Ann Day, 1816-1884

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Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...