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The Last Moments of John BrownDespite national headlines generated by the Pottawattomie massacres, Brown recognized that Kansas was still on the margins of the national consciousness and of the institution of slavery. To strike at the heart of both shortfalls, he set his sights on Virginia. As early as 1857, Brown began to hatch his plan to raid the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, spark a slave rebellion, and establish a new free state governed by a constitution of his own devising. Over the next two years, Brown contacted a number of wealthy abolitionists (including the so-called Secret Six) to recruit followers and fund the purchase of weapons. (The six men included three Bostonians Samuel Gridley Howe, Theodore Parker, and George Luther Stearns; Massachusetts residents Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Franklin Sanborn; and Gerrit Smith of Peterboro, New York.) ....