The Provisional Dispatch:
Renewing the revolution with words
Black Abolitionist Women Who Were Friends of John Brown
Women were equal in the Brown family because all people were created equal
Defining John Brown’s Masculinity: Not Toxic
John Brown biographer Louis A. DeCaro Jr., and environmental psychologist Shawndel Fraser explore John Brown’s masculinity through Frser’s work with contemporary men who earn a living with their hands.
The Historical Relationship Between John Brown and Harriet Tubman
Biographer Lou DeCaro, Historian Margaret Washington, and environmental psychologist Shawndel Fraser explore the deeply respectful relationship between two patriotic freedom fighters.
Declarations of Contradictions: Dr. Margaret Washington on broken promises, Womens Suffrage, and John Brown
Historian Margaret Washington, Ph.D., discusses the promising, but disappointing Declarations of Independence and Sentiments.
Abolitionist Women wrote Letters to John Brown in his cell
Brown receives multiple letters in his cell from abolitionist women
Bury Me in a Free Land
This poem was read during the “John Brown and Abolitionist Women” roundtable of March 16, 2023. Written by abolitionist Frances Ellen Watkins, it was published in the Antislavery Bugle in 1858.