This is a wood engraving showing the "insurgents" at Harpers Ferry in 1859 interrupted by railroad workers.
- Illus. in: The life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Brown of Ossawatomie," ... New York : R.M. DeWitt,…
This editorial cartoon by Geo. H. Ben Johnson, which appeared in 1919, is a good example of Mitchell's fundamental conviction that racism was destructive to the nation as a whole. It underscores his basic position: