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John Brown: An International Perspective
John Brown's strike against slavery and for freedom received attention and praise abroad as well as at home. Serfs, reformers, artists and intellectuals in Europe embraced John Brown as a leader in the struggle for human freedom.
Cyprian Norwid, a Polish poet and philosopher, praised John Brown in two poems written in 1859. At the end of World War II, Teodor J. Lopatkiewicz, a United States consul with the State Department, discovered this book or Norwid poems in the ruins of war-torn Warsaw, Poland.
The American Council for Polish culture commissioned sculptor Gordon Kray to create this bronze sculpture of John Brown and Cyprian Norwid. The National Park Service received the sculpture and book during a special ceremony on October 20, 1990, in commemoration of the universal aspiration for freedom. |