Page on which are reproductions of photographs of John Brown's Northern Supporters, known as the Secret Six: George L. Stearns, Gerrit Smith, Frank B. Sanborn, T. W. Higginson, Theodore Parker and Samuel G. Howe. This six funded John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.
Attribution Statement:
Image courtesy of the West Virginia State Archives, John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection.
Etching of the attempted arrest of Franklin Sanborn, 1860, published in Harper's Weekly, 14 April 1860. The caption reads, "Arrest and rescue of Frank B. Sanborn, Esq., at Concord, Massachusetts, on the night of April 3, 1860."