John Brown Pike
National Museum of American History

John Brown Pike

Blair, Charles · ca 1858

overall: 81 1/4 in x 4 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 206.375 cm x 11.43 cm x 3.175 cm
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

This pike was among 950 pikes that John Brown acquired to arm slaves incited to rebel by his raid on Harpers Ferry. The raid grew out of an earlier plan he devised in the mid-1840s.

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