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.
Why did John Brown want to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry? John Brown wanted to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry so that he could get weapons to give to local slaves in hopes of starting a slave uprising. His plan was to kill or take captive southerners who stood in his way.