https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/ny4.htm
WITNESSES Your character is an actual historical figure. Please read about his/her role in the events at Harper’s Ferry or at the trial.
You will testify to any of the facts or any “facts” that could be reasonably inferred from them. If you are asked a question for which you do not have information, you may choose to either reply that you don’t know or don’t remember, or you may infer an answer from the facts that you do know. You may not supply answers that conflict with the factual record or are unreasonable in light of the factual record.
1. Research your Role
What is your role in the events of Harper's Ferry? How do you know John Brown?
2. Write a Witness Statement
Your statement must include:
* Your full legal name
* A brief description of your background
* Your connection to John Brown
* A summary of the Raid on Harper’s ferry
* A detailed description of your involvement with the concept of abolition
* Your opinion on John Brown’s innocence or guilt in the charges presented by the prosecution
3. Research quotes and use during the trial.
Find actual words spoken by your character. Analyze how they talk and what was important to him/her. Gather quotes to be used during the trial. They do not need to be the exact quote from your character in real life. These quotes can be found in primary documents including, court cases, diaries, poems as well as in film and secondary source books. Quotes must reflect the voice of your character.
4. Assist attorneys with questions and evidence
Assist the attorneys with generating good questions based on your knowledge of events. Try to determine your character would answer the attorney’s questions. Practice! Help your attorneys with the physical evidence necessary to win the case. Physical Evidence may include drawings, diary entries, maps, Supreme Court Decisions etc. Both primary and secondary sources are acceptable.
Background
Bio
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/abolitionists/
http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc8/charles_town1.htm
https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/wv1.htm
https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/ny4.htm
Witness Testimony
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/john-brown-150/witnesses-and-testimony.html
http://mswallaceonline.weebly.com/uploads/9/0/0/1/9001256/trial_of_john_brown_brief_overview_linder.pdf
Lt. J.E.B. Stuart
http://www.jebstuart.org/articles.cfm?ID=94
Frederick D.
http://www.nps.gov/hafe/historyculture/frederick-douglass-at-harpers-ferry.htm
http://www.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/lifetimesfrederickdouglass.html
Colonel Lewis Washington
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/15/when-robert-e-lee-met-john-brown-and-saved-the-union.html
http://www.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/washingtonmasontestimony.html
Robert Lee
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/johnbrown.htm
http://www.civilwarhome.com/stuartjohnbrown.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/peopleevents/pande09.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/15/when-robert-e-lee-met-john-brown-and-saved-the-union.html
Mahala Doyle
http://sesquicentennialmadness.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/mahala-doyle-and-john-brown/
http://randomthoughtsonhistory.blogspot.com/2009/10/letter-to-john-brown-in-jail.html
Dr. Starry
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/john-brown-150/john-d-starry-testimony.html
http://genealogytrails.com/wva/jefferson/harpersferryraid.html
Colonel Higginson
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/thomas-wentworth-higginson.html
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/harpers-ferry-redux/?_r=0
Franklin Sanborn
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/secretsixdetails.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/peopleevents/pande06.html
http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/library/book-recommendations/athenaeum-authors/franklin-benjamin-sanborn
John Brown
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html
http://www.biography.com/people/john-brown-9228496
http://www.nps.gov/hafe/historyculture/john-brown.htm
http://video.pbs.org/video/2298116411/
Harriet Tubman
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/harriet-tubman.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/harriettubman/a/tubman_moses.htm
http://www.trans-video.net/~rwillisa/HTubman.htm
Mary Anne Brown
http://www.alliesforfreedom.org/Mary_Anne_Day_Brown_John_Brown_widow.html
http://www.sunnyfortuna.com/history/rohnerville/mary_brown.htm
AJ Phelps
http://www.whilbr.org/TheInsurrection/index.aspx
William Lloyd Garrison
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/john-brown-and-the-principle-of-nonresistance/
Henry David Thoreau
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/thoreau_001.asp
John Brown JR
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/senatereport.html
JB Jr Facts
http://www.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/jbprimarydocuments.html