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John Brown’s Pike: An Abolitionist’s Failed Insurrection

Museum of Artifacts That Made America

Abolitionist John Brown commissioned a blacksmith to produce hundreds of pikes – deadly spear-like weapons made from iron and wood, for his team of militiamen to raid the armoury and help set enslaved people free. But it ended in failure and Brown became the first US...

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