Rice-Eccles Stadium, Rice Stadium, Ute Stadium. Although the name has changed, the University of Utah football team has played their home games at the same address since 1927. But oh how it has changed.
Brown escalated the debate over slavery to the point that it sparked the Civil War via his raid on Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859. Brownâs contemporaries and historians have been debating his motivations to take up arms against proslavery forces since he unsheathed his sword against slavery in Kansas Territory.
In Incident at Harpers Ferry: Slavery and John Brown, students will review how slavery developed in North America, and why the institution grew in the years leading up to the Civil War. They will then look at John Brownâs life, up to 1859, particularly the time he spent out in Kansas in the mid-1850s.