Although Rhode Islanders were preparing for the state elections, they watched John Brown's trial with extreme interest.

Concerning the sentence, Foss wrote, `` If it be possible that mercy shall override vengeance and that John Brown's sentence shall be commuted to imprisonment, it would be well -- well for the country and for Virginia ''.

Stephen Vincent Benet's John Brown's Body comes immediately to mind in this connection, as does John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath and Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes.

But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

Douglass was acquainted with the radical abolitionist John Brown but disapproved of Brown's plan to start an armed slave rebellion in the South.

** John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry ( 1859 )

** Harpers Ferry Armory, second federal armory ( construction begun 1799 ) and site of John Brown's slave revolt of 1859

Other members of Brown's band included stalwart singer and sideman Bobby Byrd, drummers John " Jabo " Starks, Clyde Stubblefield and Melvin Parker ( Maceo's brother ), saxophonist St. Clair Pinckney, trombonist Fred Wesley, guitarist Alphonso " Country " Kellum and bassist Bernard Odum.

The riff was provided to " Fame " co-writers John Lennon and Bowie by guitarist Carlos Alomar, who had briefly been a member of Brown's band in the late 1960s.

* " John Brown's Body ", Union marching song of the American Civil War

* John Brown's Body ( band ), an American Reggae band

While in Washington, D. C., to discuss government contracts, and in conjunction with his application for an appointment into the quartermaster department, Stuart heard about John Brown's raid on the U. S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

Also located at the SFU Library is the Electronic Document Centre, which provides internet access to digitized documents from a number of archival collections, such as Harrison Brown's Xi ' an Incident collection, and the history of British Columbia and Western Canada in general, including documents from the Doukhobor migration from the Russian Empire to Saskatchewan and then to British Columbia assembled for donation to the university by John Keenlyside

It was used in John Brown's merchant ships and warships, including liners and Royal Navy warships.

Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831 and John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 showed deep social discontent about slavery and its role in the plantation economy.

The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and in John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry.

After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, many prominent voices in the abolitionist movement distanced themselves from Brown, or damned him with faint praise.

* 1929: John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benét

National Park Service map of Harper Ferry showing the Appalachian Trail, with ( 1 ) being the scene of John Brown's raid.

" Attendees of the 1906 meeting walked from Storer College to the nearby farm of the Murphy family, then the site of the historic fort where John Brown's quest to free four million enslaved African Americans reached its bloody climax.

During a Union Army occupation of Harpers Ferry, a contingent of soldiers from Marlborough, Massachusetts, removed a bell hanging in the Harpers Ferry arsenal firehouse., which had served as John Brown's Fort.

* John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry ( 1859 )

Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, The V. I. P.

In 1861, the Tribune published new lyrics for the song " John Brown's Body " by William W. Patton, rivaling the ones published two months later by Julia Ward Howe.

Of only one could he be sure -- young John Hudson, his second son.

Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.

* In 1764 William Harrison ( the son of John Harrison ) sailed aboard the HMS Tartar, with the H-4 time piece.

Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, the youngest son of Dr. John and Abigail Harris Johnston.

" is attributed to his son William De Morgan, but a family friend John Thomas Graves was prolific, and a manuscript with over 2, 800 has been preserved.

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

But John having died, the Pope and the English aristocracy changed their allegiance to his nine-year-old son, Henry, forcing the French and the Scots armies to return home.

* Prince Alexander John of Wales ( 1871 ), short-lived son of Edward VII

However, this situation changed drastically when Alexios ' first son John II Komnenos was born in 1087: Anna's engagement to Constantine was dissolved, and she was moved to the main Palace to live with her mother and grandmother.

Although he had crowned his son John II Komnenos co-emperor at the age of five in 1092, John's mother Irene Doukaina wished to alter the succession in favor of her daughter Anna and Anna's husband, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.

His participation in the attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat in 1200 had caused him to be imprisoned until the accession of Isaac II Angelos, who was restored to the throne after having been deposed and imprisoned by his brother Alexios III, and his son Alexios IV Angelos, who were placed on the throne by the intervention of the Fourth Crusade in July 1203.

Disillusioned and depressed, he fell into a deep melancholy and abdicated in favour of his son, John II.

* Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza, son of John I of Portugal.

* Afonso, Prince of Portugal, son of John II of Portugal.

Within a few months, the right to exercise the regency over his infant son, John V Palaiologos, and the position of Andronikos'all-powerful chief minister and friend John Kantakouzenos led to the outbreak of a destructive seven-year civil war.

He was the eldest surviving son of Michael VIII Palaiologos and Theodora Doukaina Vatatzina, grandniece of John III Doukas Vatatzes.

By November 1183, Andronikos associated his younger legitimate son John Komnenos on the throne.

At the news of the emperor's death, his son and co-emperor John was murdered by his own troops in Thrace.

Bronze statue in Temple Square, Salt Lake City, representing Saint Peter | Peter, James, son of Zebedee | James, and John the Apostle | John in the act of conferring the Melchizedek priesthood to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery

* 1981 – Murder of Adam Walsh: the head of John Walsh's son is found.

The company went bankrupt in 1924 and was bought by Lady Charnwood, who put her son John Benson on the board.

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

After George Frederick's death in 1603, the Polish king Zygmunt Waza appointed Joachim Frederick as regent in 1605, and permitted his son, John Sigismund, to succeed him in 1611.