Talk:John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
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The sword from Frederick the Great
editThe sword was not from Frederick the great. The claim in the Wikipedia article is supplemented by original research. A cursory glance of the literature indicates that this is a myth.
I know that the article acknowledges that it is only hearsay but it does not leave clear that this was not true.
See: George Washington, Frederick the Great, and the Emergence of National Literary Cultures: A Transatlantic Comparison, p. 3
https://www.nytimes.com/1916/08/27/archives/the-sword-of-frederick-tradition-in-the-washington-family-on-a.html. Chefs-kiss (talk) 14:48, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- More reputable sources have been added disputing the claim of the sword. check citations. Chefs-kiss (talk) 15:29, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Confederates Pounce?
editThat a black man was the first casualty of an insurrection whose purpose was to aid blacks, and that he disobeyed the raiders, made him a hero of the "Lost Cause" pro-Confederacy movement
Seems oddly worded unless the intent is to distract from Brown killing an uninvolved black guy by saying how awful it is that people noticed he killed an uninvolved black guy. That said, it's no surprise. 207.32.162.180 (talk) 17:12, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
As a result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of sources for John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (2nd nomination), the content that was previously at List of sources for John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry is now at Talk:John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry/Sources. Sandstein 19:36, 29 January 2026 (UTC)