So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.

The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.

On October 31, 1859, John Brown was found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia, inciting slave rebellion, and murder.

Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.

During the month of November hardly a day passed when there was not some mention of John Brown in the Rhode Island newspapers.

On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.

`` E. B. '' compared John Brown to Moses in that they were both acting to deliver millions from oppression.

In contrast to `` E. B. '', most Rhode Islanders hardly thought of John Brown as being another Moses.

The Woonsocket Patriot admitted that John Brown might deserve punishment or imprisonment `` but he should no more be hung than Henry A. Wise or James Buchanan ''.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

A week later the Daily Journal had discovered the initial plans of some Providence citizens to hold a meeting honoring John Brown on the day of his execution.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

The only public demonstration in honor of John Brown was held at Pratt's Hall in Providence, on the day of his execution.

He spoke of his desire to promote the abolition of slavery by peaceable means and he compared John Brown of Harper's Ferry to the John Brown of Rhode Island's colonial period.

Barstow concluded that as Rhode Island's John Brown became a canonized hero, if not a saint, so would it be with John Brown of Harper's Ferry.

Whereas, John Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper: Therefore,

The ending credits of the show start with thanks to the colorfully nicknamed actual staffers: producer Doug " the subway fugitive, not a slave to fashion, bongo boy frogman " Berman ; " John ' Bugsy ' Lawlor, just back from the ..." every week a different eating event with rhyming foodstuff names ; David " Calves of Belleville " Greene ; Catherine " Frau Blücher " Fenollosa, whose name causes a horse to neigh and gallop ( an allusion to a running gag in the movie Young Frankenstein ); and Carly " High Voltage " Nix, among others.

The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is faced with " retiring " six escaped Nexus-6 brain model androids, the latest and most advanced model, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal intelligence who aids the fugitive androids.

John L. Smith, a Methodist minister in Vermont, with whom Northup had worked aiding fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad.

Note: John R. Smith, the son of a Methodist minister named John L. Smith, wrote letters years later recalling that Northup and Tabbs Gross ( another black man ) had assisted his father and fugitive slaves with the Underground Railroad in Vermont.

When the stage driver, Buck ( Andy Devine ), looks for his normal shotgun guard, Marshal Curly Wilcox ( George Bancroft ) tells him that the guard has gone searching for fugitive the Ringo Kid ( John Wayne ).

In the excitement following the rescue and safe transport of fugitive slave William " Jerry " Henry in Syracuse on October 1, 1851, Frances wrote to her husband, " two fugitives have gone to Canada — one of them our acquaintance John.

The 2010 movie, True Grit, follows fictional Deputy US Marshal Rooster Cogburn, played by Jeff Bridges, as he tracks down a fugitive ; it is a remake of a 1969 movie of the same name, with fictional Deputy U. S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn being played by John Wayne.

John Greenleaf Whittier denounced slavery from the doorstep, and local tradition holds that fugitive slaves hid in tunnels under the building.

On September 13, 1858, a fugitive named John Price was captured by federal officials and held in neighboring Wellington, Ohio.

There he found himself with no fewer than 30 fugitive ministers, among whom were Richard Vines, Anthony Burges, John Bryan and Obadiah Grew.

John Walsh presenting another fugitive.

John Walsh presents a fugitive on America's Most Wanted

John Emil List ( September 17, 1925 – March 21, 2008 ) was a US fugitive convicted of murder.

After these events, Sarah becomes a fugitive from society and begins making a voice recording for John ( in which she acknowledges his paternity ) to later give to her son at the proper age.

On January 12, 2011, Special agents from the U. S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service ( DSS ) have located and helped return California fugitive John Pope from Mexico.

On January 12, 2011, DSS agents located and helped return California fugitive John Pope from Mexico.

In 1845, he successfully defended Marvin Pond ( People v. Pond ) for harboring the fugitive slave John Hauley.

" He chases the fugitive Links family far and wide, always addressing James Links as " John Carter ".

On 10 February 1965 fugitive John Middleton shot two policemen while hiding in the waiting room.

* On February 10, 1965 fugitive John Middleton shot two policemen while hiding in the waiting room at Oxenholme railway station.

He also broke open the investigation and harassment by the Nixon administration of John Lennon during the fight to deport Lennon, the search for fugitive ex-Nazi officials in South America and the savings and loan crisis.

In 1771, Governor John Moultrie wrote to the English Board of Trade, “ It has been a practice for a good while past, for negroes to run away from their Masters, and get into the Indian towns, from whence it proved very difficult to get them back .” When British government officials pressured the Native Americans to return the fugitive slaves, they replied that they had " merely given hungry people food, and invited the slaveholders to catch the runaways themselves.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

Delegates from 11 slave states walked out of the Democratic convention, disagreeing with Douglas's position on popular sovereignty, and ultimately selected John C. Breckinridge as their candidate.

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.

Persuaded in part by Lane's abolitionist views, Alcott took a stand against the John Tyler administration's plan to annex Texas as a slave territory and refused to pay his poll tax.

John the Conqueror was an African prince who was sold as a slave in the Americas.

When John Dickinson freed his slaves in 1777, he was Delaware's largest slave owner with 37 slaves.

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

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

* 1655 – John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies.

John Newton was an only child, and was a self-educated sea captain, at one time captaining slave ships.

Gainey and Tom Savini as Big John and Ellis Brittle, two of the slave owners who separate Django and Broomhilda, Anthony LaPaglia and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Australian brothers, Jano and an unnamed character, respectively, who encounter Django while escorting slaves to a fight.

Attempts by governor John Skottowe ( 1764 – 1782 ) to regularise the sale of arrack and punch led to some hostility and desertions by a number of troops who stole boats and were probably mostly lost at sea — however, at least one group of seven soldiers and a slave succeeded in escaping to Brazil in 1770.

In 1655, John Casor, a black man, became the first legally recognized slave in the present United States.

*" Shipwrecked and abandoned: the story of the slave Crusoes " by John Lichfield, The Independent 5 February 2007

Stories about historic figures, such as those surrounding Pocahontas and John Smith, George Washington's childhood, or the plantation elite in the slave society of the antebellum period, have also created potent myths of state history, and have served as rationales for Virginia's ideology.

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.

* October 16 – John Brown raids the Harpers Ferry Armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in an unsuccessful bid to spark a general slave rebellion.

* March 8 – John Castor became the first legally recognized slave in what was to be the United States.

Bernard Martin argues in The Ancient Mariner and the Authentic Narrative that Coleridge was also influenced by the life of Anglican clergyman John Newton, who had a near-death experience aboard a slave ship.

Under John II's watch, the gold and slave trade in west Africa was greatly expanded.

This idea of an unequal relationship was however contested by John Thornton ( 1998 ), who argued that " the Atlantic slave trade was not nearly as critical to the African economy as these scholars believed " and that " African manufacturing this period was more than capable of handling competition from preindustrial Europe.