Militant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States" id="mwYQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Abolitionism in the United States">abolitionist</a> leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)" id="mwYg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Brown (abolitionist)">John Brown</a> is hanged for his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_16" id="mwYw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="October 16">October 16</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown's_raid_on_Harpers_Ferry" id="mwZA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry">raid</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpers_Ferry,_West_Virginia" id="mwZQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Harpers Ferry, West Virginia">Harpers Ferry, West Virginia</a>.<sup about="#mwt45" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_2#cite_note-7" id="mwZg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwZw">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt42" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFSchraff2010">Schraff, Anne E. (2010). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=g9vccT4QhlIC&amp;q=john%20brown%20executed&amp;pg=PA103" id="mwByY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwByc">John Brown: "We Came to Free the Slaves"</i></a>. Enslow Publishers. pp.<span id="mwByg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>103–107. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwByk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwByo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780766033559" id="mwBys" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780766033559"><bdi id="mwByw">9780766033559</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBy0">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBy4">20 May</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt42" class="Z3988" id="mwBy8" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=John+Brown%3A+%22We+Came+to+Free+the+Slaves%22&amp;rft.pages=103-107&amp;rft.pub=Enslow+Publishers&amp;rft.date=2010&amp;rft.isbn=9780766033559&amp;rft.aulast=Schraff&amp;rft.aufirst=Anne+E.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dg9vccT4QhlIC%26q%3Djohn%2520brown%2520executed%26pg%3DPA103&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+2"></span></span>