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happy John Brown day!

Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social

This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1859. John Brown and a group of followers invade the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today WV) to start a war and end slavery. Let's talk about this key moment in American labor history!

Matt Gabriele

@profgabriele.com

also i find it really interesting that that painting "tragic prelude" was meant as a warning and critique of Brown, but ended up going so hard that people (rightly) are like CRUSH THE SLAVE POWER LET'S GOOOOOOOOO

16/10/26, 1:05 pm2 reposts60 likes

Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they)

@themoonis.gay

“This crazy guy is as strong as a tornado!!” “Hell yeah he has the Mandate of Heaven let’s do it”

Starlight Veronica

@starlightveronica.bsky.social

Mine eyes have seen the glory

AUXTRONtheARCHIVIST📺

@auxtronarch1ve.bsky.social

I think it's one of the most important American history paintings ever made, in many ways entirely relevant throughout the course of the nation's warped version of progress