My sole purpose in publishing the following Narrative is to save from oblivion the facts connected with one of the most important movements of this age, with reference to the overthrow of American slavery. My own personal experience in it, under the orders of Capt. Brown, on the 16th and 17th of October, 1859, as the only man alive who was at Harper’s Ferry during the entire time--the unsuccessful groping after these facts, by individuals, impossible to be obtained, except from an actor in the scene--and the conviction that the cause of impartial liberty requires this duty at my hands--alone have been the motives for writing and circulating the little book herewith presented. I will not, un…
Or read it translated: 日本語 · 中文 · हिन्दी · Español · العربية · Français · বাংলা · Português · Русский · Bahasa Indonesia · اردو · Deutsch · Kiswahili · 한국어