cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9916630

This Sharps rifle bears no maker’s mark; it was made especially for John Brown. Brown carried this weapon on his Kansas campaign in 1856 and later presented it to Charles Blair of Collinsville, Connecticut. In 1857, Brown contracted Blair to forge pikes for the clandestine slave insurrection he was planning for Harpers Ferry.

  • @Custoslibera
    3•9 months ago

    I like to listen to American Trilogy by Elvis and it is always strange to me how Americans have the example of John Brown contrasted with a romanticisation of Dixieland.

    How is it possible the entire country doesn’t recognise the example set by Brown?

    • @shalafiEnglish
      5•9 months ago

      Brown is well known and loved among liberal gun owners.