Abolitionist John Brown Revisited This Week at LiveAuctionTalk.com

Online, January 20, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Santa Fe, Jan. 20, 2010 -- When 19th century abolitionist John Brown was young he drove a herd of cattle, by himself, almost 100 miles to market for his father. On one of his drives he witnessed a young slave boy about his own age in rags being beaten with a shovel by his owner.

It was a scene Brown never forgot. It was a scene that stuck in his head like the glue of his life. For Brown there would be no middle ground with slavery.

As an adult his anti-slavery efforts grew more and more violent. The zealot ultimately died on a scaffold, hung for his revolt at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

"The disgrace of hanging does not trouble me in the least," he said. "In fact I know that the very errors by which my scheme was marred were decreed before the world was made."

Jacob Lawrence was a skilled 20th century African American painter. He painted the struggles of his people from Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman to John Brown's resistance.

On Oct. 8, Swann Galleries, New York, featured one of Lawrence's screenprint portfolios in its African-American Fine Art auction. "The Legend of John Brown", 1977; 60 signed and numbered pieces.

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