No. 19 Sunday, October 16, 1859, John Brown with a company of 21 men, white and black, marched on Harpers Ferry.

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A screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts twenty-one yellow bayonets attached to black rifle barrels in a horizontal line. The weapons peek out of a brown and tan ground with a black night sky filled with shades of blue. On the front of the print, the artist wrote the series number and edition in the lower left corner [#19 51/60] and signed and dated in the lower right corner [Jacob Lawrence 1977].

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