No. 8 John Brown’s first thought of the place where he would make his attack came to him while surveying land for Oberlin College in West Virginia.

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A screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts three mountain peaks, each a different color. From back to front, the peaks are green, brown and red with black shadowing in each of them. The sky is blue, light blue and white. On the front of the print, the artist wrote the series number and edition in the lower left corner [#8 51/60] and signed and dated in the lower right corner [Jacob Lawrence 1977].

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