No. 16 In spite of a price on his head, John Brown, in 1859, liberated 12 Negroes from Missouri plantations.

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A screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts someone walking through a snowfield. Only the bottom half of the figure is visible on the right side of the print. On the left side is a brown tree. There are footprints and presumably blood left by the figure, running from the top to bottom, left to right of the snowfall. On the front of the print, the artist wrote the series number and edition in the lower left corner [#16 51/60] and signed and dated in the lower right corner [Jacob Lawrence 1977].

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