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1. WMSHJB_190808_004.JPG: John Brown's Desk
2. WMSHJB_190808_006.JPG: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln & The Civil War John Brown in Springfield
3. WMSHJB_190808_013.JPG: Communion Table from Old First Church, c 1818 This Communion table was a fixture in Old First Church, and dates back to the period when Reverend Samuel Osgood was Pastor.
4. WMSHJB_190808_018.JPG: "Union is Strength" "Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead." -- Judges 7:3 "Though a white gentleman, he is in sympathy a black man, and as deeply interested in our cause, as though his own soul had been pierced with the iron of slavery." -- Frederick Douglass "From this night spent with John Brown in Springfield, Mass., 1847 while I continued to write and speak against slavery, I became all the same less hopeful of its peaceful abolition. My utterances became more and more tinged by the color of this man's strong impressions." -- Frederick Douglass
5. WMSHJB_190808_020.JPG: Hobnail Safe Maker unknown While John Brown lived in Springfield, he was a member of the wool firm Perkins & Brown. This safe was used by the firm. The piece is believed to have come to the museum as a purchase in 1906 from the Estate of H.A. Braman, who was a friend of Brown's.
6. WMSHJB_190808_025.JPG: Armless Boston Type Rocker, ca 1840 Maker Unknown While in Springfield, John Brown had formed a friendship with one of his employees, an African-American man named Thomas Thomas. When Brown later departed Springfield with his family, he presented this chair to Thomas' mother, Mrs. Sophia Thomas. Upon her death, this chair was left to her son and according to Thomas' widow Martha, was much prized for him for many years.
7. WMSHJB_190808_029.JPG: Abolition in Springfield 1780s-1830s
8. WMSHJB_190808_032.JPG: Abolition in Springfield 1780s-1830s Massachusetts was in the vanguard of the anti-slavery movement. In 1783 a judicial decision by the state's Supreme Court brought slavery to an end in Massachusetts. However, the United States Constitution did not ban slavery. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, enacted by the United States Second Congress, imposed a fine of $500 and up to a year in jail on anyone aiding a runaway slave.
9. WMSHJB_190808_034.JPG: The Story of Jenny
10. WMSHJB_190808_038.JPG: Underground Railroad Hampden County Anti-Slavery Society
11. WMSHJB_190808_042.JPG: Free Church
12. WMSHJB_190808_045.JPG: Thomas Thomas Eli Baptist
13. WMSHJB_190808_048.JPG: "I think the Idea of Slavery in inconsistent with our own conduct & Constitution..." -- William Cushing, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1783
14. WMSHJB_190808_050.JPG: Brown's Homes & Business John Brown's house on Franklin St. in Springfield When John Brown and his family moved into this house at 31 Franklin St., they took a vote to decide whether the parlor should be furnished or the money spent to aid the abolitionist cause. The parlor went unfurnished.
15. WMSHJB_190808_053.JPG: Perkins & Brown Wool Warehouse John Brown's first warehouse was at the corner of Water Street (Columbus Ave.) and Railroad Row. He soon moved to what Frederick Douglass described as a "substantial brick building" across the street from the Massasoit House. Both Brown's home and warehouse were sub-stations on the Underground Railroad.
16. WMSHJB_190808_056.JPG: John Brown's house on Gray's Avenue in Springfield When John Brown first came to Springfield in 1846 he lived with his sons, John Jr. and Jason, at the American House. When other members of the family arrived they moved to the second floor of this brick house on Gray's Avenue.
17. WMSHJB_190808_060.JPG: John Brown's birthplace in Torrington, Connecticut This farm house was built in 1785 and was purchased by Owen Brown, John Brown's father, in 1799. John Brown was born there on May 9, 1800.
18. WMSHJB_190808_063.JPG: Terrorist or Martyr? John Brown's Raid on the Arsenal at Harpers Ferry October 16-18, 1859
19. WMSHJB_190808_068.JPG: Kennedy Farm The Engine House
20. WMSHJB_190808_071.JPG: The Raiders in the Engine House On Monday, October 17, the local militia began to fire on the arsenal, effectively pinning down Brown and his men.
21. WMSHJB_190808_074.JPG: The Marines Storming the Engine House At 6:30 on the morning of Tuesday, October 18, Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee ordered Lieutenant Israel Green and a group of men to storm the engine house. At a signal from Lieutenant J.E.B. Stuart, the engine house door was knocked down and the Marines began taking prisoners. Green seriously wounded Brown with his sword.
22. WMSHJB_190808_077.JPG: John Brown on the way to his execution John Brown was hanged on December 2, 1859.
23. WMSHJB_190808_080.JPG: Jefferson County Court House Thirty-six hours after the raid began, 17 people had been killed: two slaves, four townsmen -- including the Mayor of Harpers Ferry -- one Marine, and ten of John Brown's men, including two of his sons. John Brown and six of his men were taken to jail in Charlestown, Virginia. Five of the raiders escaped. John Brown, still recovering from a sword wound, stood trial at the Jefferson County Courthouse on October 26. Five days later, a jury found him guilty of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, of conspiring with slaves to rebel, and of murder.
24. WMSHJB_190808_082.JPG: Springfield Armory On April 18, 1861, less than 24 hours after Virginia seceded from the Union. Federal soldiers set fire to the Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry to keep them out of Confederate hands. The Government now had only one place to rely on for its supply of arms -- the Springfield Armory. When the war started the Armory was producing only 800 guns a month, put out by about 250 employees. They quickly geared up and by the end of the conflict the Armory had produced more than 805,000 guns and employed 2,600 workers.
25. WMSHJB_190808_086.JPG: Abraham Lincoln: Defender of the Union
26. WMSHJB_190808_092.JPG: George Ashmun
27. WMSHJB_190808_106.JPG: Samuel Bowles III, ca 1878
28. WMSHJB_190808_113.JPG: J.G. Holland Born in Belchertown, Holland became an editor at the Springfield Republican in 1850 and founder of Scribner's Monthly in 1887. His book The Life of Abraham Lincoln, published in 1866, was one of the earliest biographies of the 16th president.
29. WMSHJB_190808_121.JPG: The Frontlines & The Homefront Emancipation Proclamation
30. WMSHJB_190808_126.JPG: Springfield After the Civil War
31. WMSHJB_190808_128.JPG: Men of Color, To Arms
32. WMSHJB_190808_135.JPG: St. John's Congregational Church As Springfield's African American population grew, the Free Church on Sanford Street grew and joined with the Quincy Street Mission. The new church was renamed St. John's Congregational Church i honor of a former member, John Brown.
33. WMSHJB_190808_138.JPG: Springfield After the Civil War
34. WMSHJB_190808_141.JPG: Mary Ames & Emily Bliss
35. WMSHJB_190808_145.JPG: The Frontlines
36. WMSHJB_190808_156.JPG: The Homefront
37. WMSHJB_190808_158.JPG: John Brown Relics Fragments of wood and slate taken from John Brown's Fort at Harper's Ferry, Virginia
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The Quadrangle is the common name for a cluster of museums and cultural institutions in Metro Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, on Chestnut Street between State and Edwards Streets.

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