No. 17 John Brown remained a full winter in Canada, drilling Negroes for his coming raid on Harpers Ferry

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A screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts John Brown with his back to the viewer holding a rifle in his proper left hand. Brown is standing in front of two rows of Black men wearing winter clothing, six men in the front row and five in the back row. Three men also hold rifles. On the front of the print, the artist wrote the series number and edition in the lower left corner [#17 9/60] and signed and dated in the lower right corner [Jacob Lawrence 1977].

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