Why did John Brown choose Harpers Ferry as the first target in his attempt to run off large numbers of slaves to the North?
A. Aside from the fact that the town has an arms factory with large supplies of state-of-the-art weapons, Harpers Ferry stands at the cusp of the Virginia split, i.e. the area between the slaveholders of the tidelands and the western Virginians who were opposed to slavery. Brown fully expected that abolitionists from western Virginia would join in his raid.
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