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mre · Senior Member

Assignment #5: John Brown Theatre (A & B Block)

AWHBRY · Veteran Member

B-BLOCK!

Here are some focus points and questions to keep in mind, and hopefully answer evileye

on the forum :

* Ways to incorporate the common American families and how these events that we're focusing on in Browns life affected them, as well as their positions on the subject

* Ways to involve his 18 children... ?

* Fredrick douglass' freindship/influence on Brown?

* possibly scene of financial stress in browns life, what led to that? How did it affect him?

_How will we show brown aging? Through stages? Of what length?

_ How did his first wife affect him?

_ How do you want to create and use transitional scenes? Jump scenes to speed up events/aging?

_ Can we incorporate a scene of clay promoting his compromise of 1850 then go to a flash "forward" of how it affects brown

_Will we just change clothes and maybe use hair/facial hair, and other exaggerated features to show change in age, and the time period?

Charlene · Veteran Member

The King's (Wo)Men! Assemble!

Issues needed to be address:

- Film or Theatre?

- Research, research...

- How are we going to write the script? (Unless we are seriously hardcore and decide to do improv.)

- How we are going to divide the roles?

- How many of us feel comfortable acting?

- An angle or perspective.

- Should we incorporate a narrator?

- Important characters and events.

- Clothes, makeup, etc.

- Will all of us be able to assemble for a day or two, in a specific location, to rehearse or film?

Etcetera, etcetera...

I have a crazy idea, but it's best not to expose it here and discuss in secrecy.

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mre · Senior Member

John Brown Links:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html
John Brown on Africans in America

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=137
John Brown's Grave

http://www.kshs.org/cool3/pike.htm
John Brown's Pike

http://www.familytales.org/results.php?tla=job
John Brown's Letters

http://www.kansashistory.us/johnbrown.html
Biography on John Brown

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101402520.html
Washington Post article on 150 Anniversary of Harper's Ferry

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/16/150_years_ago_today_abolitionist_john Podcast Reading of John Brown's Words on 150 Anniversary

http://www.transcendentalists.com/thoreau_plea_john_brown.htm
Thoreau's Speech on John Brown's Execution

http://www.nationalcenter.org/JohnBrown%27sSpeech.html
John Brown's Final Words to the Court

http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1937/37_1_edwards.htm
A play on John Brown

Go at it!

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felicity · Veteran Member

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/brownhome.html

super helpful link. A BLOCK haha

mre · Senior Member

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/house-divided/2009/09/a_must-see_play_on_john_brown.html

http://www.historicharpersferry.com/articles/johnbrownsbody.php

and here's a Lincoln quote on John Brown:
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/cooper.htm

Again, you say we have made the slavery question more prominent than it formerly was. We deny it. We admit that it is more prominent, but we deny that we made it so. It was not we, but you, who discarded the old policy of the fathers. We resisted, and still resist, your innovation; and thence comes the greater prominence of the question. Would you have that question reduced to its former proportions? Go back to that old policy. What has been will be again, under the same conditions. If you would have the peace of the old times, readopt the precepts and policy of the old times.

You charge that we stir up insurrections among your slaves. We deny it; and what is your proof? Harper's Ferry! John Brown!! John Brown was no Republican; and you have failed to implicate a single Republican in his Harper's Ferry enterprise. If any member of our party is guilty in that matter, you know it or you do not know it. If you do know it, you are inexcusable for not designating the man and proving the fact. If you do not know it, you are inexcusable for asserting it, and especially for persisting in the assertion after you have tried and failed to make the proof. You need to be told that persisting in a charge which one does not know to be true, is simply malicious slander.

Some of you admit that no Republican designedly aided or encouraged the Harper's Ferry affair, but still insist that our doctrines and declarations necessarily lead to such results. We do not believe it. We know we hold to no doctrine, and make no declaration, which were not held to and made by "our fathers who framed the Government under which we live." You never dealt fairly by us in relation to this affair. When it occurred, some important State elections were near at hand, and you were in evident glee with the belief that, by charging the blame upon us, you could get an advantage of us in those elections. The elections came, and your expectations were not quite fulfilled. Every Republican man knew that, as to himself at least, your charge was a slander, and he was not much inclined by it to cast his vote in your favor. Republican doctrines and declarations are accompanied with a continual protest against any interference whatever with your slaves, or with you about your slaves. Surely, this does not encourage them to revolt. True, we do, in common with "our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live," declare our belief that slavery is wrong; but the slaves do not hear us declare even this. For anything we say or do, the slaves would scarcely know there is a Republican party. I believe they would not, in fact, generally know it but for your misrepresentations of us, in their hearing. In your political contests among yourselves, each faction charges the other with sympathy with Black Republicanism; and then, to give point to the charge, defines Black Republicanism to simply be insurrection, blood and thunder among the slaves.

Slave insurrections are no more common now than they were before the Republican party was organized. What induced the Southampton insurrection, twenty-eight years ago, in which, at least three times as many lives were lost as at Harper's Ferry? You can scarcely stretch your very elastic fancy to the conclusion that Southampton was "got up by Black Republicanism." In the present state of things in the United States, I do not think a general, or even a very extensive slave insurrection is possible. The indispensable concert of action cannot be attained. The slaves have no means of rapid communication; nor can incendiary freemen, black or white, supply it. The explosive materials are everywhere in parcels; but there neither are, nor can be supplied, the indispensable connecting trains.

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mre · Senior Member

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. It was an attempt by white men to get up a revolt among slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate.
--Abraham Lincoln

February 27, 1860 Cooper Union Address

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mre · Senior Member

Brown also met with Frederick Douglass in August of 1859, when Brown told his friend of his intentions of seizing the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry rather than staging guerilla warfare from the mountains. Attacking the arsenal was in effect attacking the federal government and, in Douglass' estimation, a grave mistake. "You're walking into a perfect steel-trap," he said to Brown, "and you will never get out alive."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2940.html

mre · Senior Member

Brown found 21 men to join him. In a farmhouse a few miles outside of Harpers Ferry, the small army gathered and waited for the time to strike. The group included a fugitive slave, a college student, and free blacks. Three of the men were Brown’s sons.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/peopleevents/pande09.html

richie_richh · Member

here is a link about 5 differnt questions in audio form could with the play and dbq

Question:

Question 1: What impact did John Brown have upon the nation with regard to the slavery issue?

Question 2: Why did John Brown choose violence?

Question 3: Would you please comment on John Brown's relationship with his God and his belief in the Bible.

Question 4: Would you rate John Brown in American history as a failure, a success, or an enigma?

Question 5: Why do you feel that John Brown still lives in America's consciousness after 135 years?

heres the link- http://www.nps.gov/archive/hafe/jbrown/oates.htm

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mre · Senior Member

Henry David Thoreau, although himself did not favor violence, praised John Brown, and when the fiery Preacher was sentenced to death, Ralph Waldo emerson said: "He will make the gallows holy as the cross."

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood."
—John Brown's last words, written on a note
handed to a guard just before his hanging

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/johnbrown.html

Vicky Smith · Member

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/brownprisonletters.html

These are some very informative letters I found from John Brown to his wife and children while he was in jail between the time of his trial and his death.

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Matthew Wasilowski · Veteran Member

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/sfeature/kennedyfarm.html

John Brown information before the raid at Harpers Ferry.

Nuru101 · Newbie

http://www.wvculture.org/index.aspx

I found this website use ful for me to do research on Harper's Ferry Raid.

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mre · Senior Member

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html
John Brown biography

Sarah Flood · Veteran Member

A Block- A very helpful link to the timeline of John Brown's entire life. Shows many facts and key aspects of his life.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/brownchronology.html

Below is the speech given by John Brown at his trial on November 2nd, 1859.

I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted -- the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter, as I did last winter when I went into Missouri and there took slaves without the snapping of a gun on either side, moved them through the country, and finally left them in Canada. I designed to have done the same thing again on a larger scale. That was all I intended. I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection.

I have another objection; and that is, it is unjust that I should suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered in the manner which I admit, and which I admit has been fairly proved (for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case)--had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends--either father, mother, brother, sister, wife, or children, or any of that class--and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right; and every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.

This court acknowledges, as I suppose, the validity of the law of God. I see a book kissed here which I suppose to be the Bible, or at least the New Testament. That teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them. It teaches me, further, to "remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them." I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done--as I have always freely admitted I have done--in behalf of His despised poor was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments--I submit; so let it be done!

Let me say one word further.

I feel entirely satisfied with the treatment I have received on my trial. Considering all the circumstances it has been more generous than I expected. But I feel no consciousness of guilt. I have stated that from the first what was my intention and what was not. I never had any design against the life of any person, nor any disposition to commit treason, or excite slaves to rebel, or make any general insurrection. I never encouraged any man to do so, but always discouraged any idea of that kind.

Let me say also a word in regard to the statements made by some of those connected with me. I her it has been stated by some of them that I have induced them to join me. But the contrary is true. I do not say this to injure them, but as regretting their weakness. There is not one of them but joined me of his own accord, and the greater part of them at their own expense. A number of them I never saw, and never had a word of conversation with till the day they came to me; and that was for the purpose I have stated.

Now I have done.

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theaa · Veteran Member

B BLOCK

we should probably decide on get a list of scenes that we are going to perform.
once that is done, we can assign people to write their parts and choose what he like the best and incorporate it.

i like savannah's outline of the events.
if we go along with those and then add our details and decide exactly how we want to incorporate different events.

-- Edited by theaa on Friday 20th of November 2009 07:03:59 AM

Savanna · Veteran Member

Some plays have a narrator and I was wondering if anyone wanted to have someone play Mrs.Pojer as the narrator. I know that some people are not comfortable performing so as an alternative, if interested, can do something like help write the script, make props and scenery, or play a role with little or no lines.

Characters:

John Brown (young and old can be different people or we can just add a beard)
His father
1st and 2nd wife
Fredrick Douglas
Henry David Thoreau
Pro-slavery southerners
Anit-slavery northeners
The men at Harper's ferry
Victims of the Pottawatomie Masscre
Slaves
The jury at his trial and the judge
The crowd at his execution
Abe Lincoln
Robert E. Lee and his army

The Scenes:
1- J.B as a child, being taught by his father
2-12yro J.B witnesses the slave being beaten
3-Wife One, then wife Two
4-Lovejoy's funeral. J.B's vow
5-Freeing the slaves and taking them to Canada
6-Meeting the Secret Six and going to Kansas
7-Pottawatomie
8-Harper's ferry
9-Trial
10-Hanging

This is just a suggestion. hmm

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Cara · Veteran Member

May 1800

John Brown is born in Torrington, Connecticut.

1812

While in Michigan, John Brown lodges with a slave-owning man. Brown's memory of seeing the man beat his slave with a shovel inspires his hatred of slavery.

August 31, 1831

Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion in Virginia that results in the deaths of fifty-five white plantation residents and hundreds of blacks. (Turner is captured and hanged with sixteen of his cohorts two months later.) Turner's rebellion shocks the South and influences Brown's planning for his later attack at Harper's Ferry.

June 14, 1833

Brown weds the stable and stoical Mary Day, who is only sixteen at the time. Mary will give Brown thirteen more children. Only four of Mary's children will outlive her.

January 1836

Brown moves to central Ohio. Although beset with economic difficulties, Brown establishes important connections in Ohio's abolitionist network. His life's work begins to come into focus as he becomes a stationmaster of the Underground Railroad and gives speeches in support of repeal of state laws discriminating against blacks.

Summer 1837

Brown is expelled from his church for escorting blacks to pews reserved for white parishioners.

November 7, 1837

Anti-slavery minister and editor Elijah Lovejoy, who editorialized against the lynching of a black, is killed when a mob of angry whites storm his printing press in Alton, Illinois. The murder of Lovejoy further radicalizes John Brown, and he vows during a memorial service to end slavery.

September 28, 1842

Brown is adjudged bankrupt by a federal court. He and his family is left only with the bare essentials necessary to survive.

November 1847

Black abolitionist leader Frederick Douglas visits the Brown home, where Brown lays out his plan to lead a group of men on raids of slave-holding southern plantations, followed by retreats into the mountains.

Spring 1849

Brown moves to a farm in North Elba, N. Y., near Lake Placid. North Elba is perhaps the first American community where blacks and whites live together on generally equal terms.

1854

The Kansas-Nebraska Act puts the decision of whether or not to allow slavery in the new territories into the hands of the settlers in those terrorities.

June 28, 1855

At a convention of Radical Political Abolitionists, including Frederick Douglas, Gerrit Smith, and Lewis Tappan, Brown held raise money for the Free State settlers of Kansas.

May 21, 1856

Proslavery forces storm the antislavery center of Lawrence, Kansas, ransacking Free State printing presses and looting homes.

May 23, 1856

Enraged by news of the storming of Lawrence and the caning of Senator Sumner, John Brown and six other radical abolitionists arm themselves with guns and swords and leave Ottawa Creek, heading in the direction of a proslavery settlement.

May 26, 1856

Brown directs the murder of five proslavery settlers in Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. The massacre causes southerners to misread Brown's extremism as typical of the feelings of most northern abolitionists, greatly affecting the course of subsequent events on the national stage.

September 1856

Brown leaves Kansas for the East, the month after his badly outnumbered men won a battle against proslavery forces at Osawatomie, Kansas. Brown is henceforth often referred to as "Osawatomie Brown."

January-March 1857

In Boston, Brown is introduced to important abolitionists who will provide financial and moral support for his antislavery activities. This group becomes known as the "Secret Six." Brown collects arms and hires Hugh Forbes, an experienced English military tactician, to be the drillmaster for the forces he is mustering for his planned attack at Harper's Ferry and elsewhere.

February 1858

Concerned about possible arrest for his activities, Brown hides out for three weeks in the Rochester, New York home of his friend, Frederick Douglas.

April 1858

Brown proposes a new (rather utopian) constitution, based on complete equality of the races, at a convention in Chatham, Ontario. The convention elects Brown commander-in-chief, John Kagi as Secretary of War, and Richard Realf as Secretary of State.

June 1858

Brown, with Forbes now leaking information to key congressmen about Brown's plans to attack slaveholders, travels to Kansas.

December 1858

Brown and his followers invade Missouri and appropriate property and liberate slaves from two farms. Brown begins leading the slaves on an 82-day one-thousand-mile journey to freedom in Canada.

June 1859

Brown leaves his home in North Elba for the last time.

July 1859

Brown rents a Maryland farmhouse near Harper's Ferry from Dr. Booth Kennedy. He and various of his forces will stay at the Kennedy farm until their attack.

August 16, 1859

Brown meets secretly with Frederick Douglas at a rock quarry in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where Brown unsuccessfully tries to convince Douglas to join him at Harper's Ferry.

October 16, 1859

Brown leads 21 men on an attack on the armory at Harper's Ferry. They meet little early resistance and capture the armory. Hostages are rounded up from nearby farms. In an effort to prevent news of the attack from reaching Washington, the baggage master of an eastbound train is shot, but then the train is allowed to proceed.

October 18, 1859

U. S. marines, under the command of Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee, surround the engine house. Brown refuses to surrender and the marines storm the building. Brown and six of his men are captured. Ten of his men (including two of his sons) are killed. Brown is questioned for three hours.

October 27, 1859

After being declared fit for trial by a doctor, John Brown faces the first day of trial for murder, conspiracy, and treason in Charlestown.

October 31, 1859

The defense concludes its case, having argued that Brown killed no one and he owed no duty of loyalty to Virginia, and thus could not be guilty of treason against the state.

November 2, 1859

After 45 minutes of deliberation, the jury finds Brown guilty of conspiracy, murder, and treason. Brown in sentenced to be hanged in public on December 2.

December 1, 1859

After declining rescue attempts, Brown has a last meal with his wife.

December 2, 1859

Brown writes a final letter to his wife. Around 11:00 he is led through a crowd of 2,000 spectators and soldiers to the scaffold. He is pronounced dead at 11:50 AM. His body is later taken to North Elba for burial at the family farm.

Thoreau gives speech after brown's execution

April 12, 1861

Confederate forces fire on FortSumter and the Civil War begins.

December 6, 1865

The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, is ratified.

PatriciaC · Member

-starting to write a script for the scene in Michigan in 1812

Kellyman · Member

December 1, 1859

After declining rescue attempts, Brown has a last meal with his wife.

theaa · Veteran Member

November 7, 1837
Anti-slavery minister and editor Elijah Lovejoy, who editorialized against the lynching of a black, is killed when a mob of angry whites storm his printing press in Alton, Illinois. The murder of Lovejoy further radicalizes John Brown, and he vows during a memorial service to end slavery.

mre · Senior Member

During the war with England a circumstance occurred that in the end made him a most determined Abolitionist: & led him to declare, or Swear: Eternal war with Slavery. He was staying for a short time with a very gentlemanly landlord since a United States Marshall who held a slave boy near his own age very active, intelligent and good feeling; & to whom John was under considerable obligation for numerous little acts of kindness. The master made a great pet of John: brought him to table with his first company; & friends; called their attention to every little smart thing he said or did: & to the fact of his being more than a hundred miles from home with a company of cattle along; while the negro boy (who was fully if not more than his equal) was badly clothed, poorly fed; & lodged in cold weather, & beaten before his eyes with Iron Shovels or any other thing that came first to hand. This brought John to reflect on the wretched, hopeless condition, of Fatherless & Motherless slave children: for such children have neither Fathers or Mothers to protect, & provide for them. He sometimes would raise the question is God their Father?^{9

8 John Brown's Autobiography, in Sanborn, op. cit., 15.
9 Ibid., 14-15.

from http://www.wvculture.org/history/jb11.html}

BritanyR · Member

hey it's britany, i'm choosing to do this part of john browns life kk

Summer 1837

Brown is expelled from his church for escorting blacks to pews reserved for white parishioners.

Cara · Veteran Member

I'm going to write the script for
May 26, 1856
Brown directs the murder of five proslavery settlers in Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. The massacre causes southerners to misread Brown's extremism as typical of the feelings of most northern abolitionists, greatly affecting the course of subsequent events on the national stage.

Arthur · Veteran Member

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist) biggrin

michaella · Member

I think all these timeslines are great, but like Mr. Everett is saying, we need to always incorporate people feelings, emotions, and their outlooks on their different topics.

michaella · Member

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/peopleevents/pande01.html

Arthur · Veteran Member

Cast:

John Brown: Adam Da Silva

dead guy1:

dead guy2: Tony Wu

dead guy 3:

dead guy 4 :

dead guy 5:

Robert E. Lee:

John Brow’s dad:

Robert E. Lee’s soldier1:

Robert E. Lee’s soldier 2:

Robert E. Lee’s soldier 3:

son of JB 1:

son of JB 2:

son of JB 3:

Henry David Thoreau: Charlene

Fredric Douglass:

Abraham Lincoln: Mr. E

Ms. Pojer: Althea

here is the cast list so far. if you are interested in a part that is not yet taken post your name and the name of the character that you wish to play
thanks! :)

* also if there are any characters that you think should be added to the play...... then say so!

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theaa · Veteran Member

IDEA!

we should just show the same two families, one from the north and one in the south, throught the diffferent scenes so we can show their ideas and how they change through the time due to john brown.

and we should add John Brown's Body to the play somewhere to

-- Edited by theaa on Friday 20th of November 2009 07:33:20 AM

michaella · Member

1854
The Kansas-Nebraska Act puts the decision of whether or not to allow slavery in the new territories into the hands of the settlers in those terrorities.

Kenzie · Member

June 14, 1833

Brown weds the stable and stoical Mary Day, who is only sixteen at the time. Mary will give Brown thirteen more children. Only four of Mary's children will outlive her.

Charlene · Veteran Member

How about this site: The American Experience: John Brown's Holy War

We could begin the play with Lincoln being questioned about John Brown. Yet the scene immediately fades out before he is able to answer it.
In the following scene, we can show a child being told the story of John Brown from a Northerner's perspective and a Southerners perspective. (Which is acted out separately)
Northerner's narrative: Glorifies John Brown in a Joan of Ark kind of way and paints him as an martyr.
Southerner's narrative: Condemns Brown and paints him as an murderer. I know this is a rather controversial and over-the-top, but perhaps we could portray our African-American characters using black face.
At the end of the play, we could repeat the same Lincoln scene in the beginning and still don't provide his answer. Instead, this abrupt ending will leave the audience to decide for themselves whether Brown was a martyr or a murderer.

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Arthur · Veteran Member

lyrics to john brown's body!

John Brown's body lies a-mold'ring in the grave
John Brown's body lies a-mold'ring in the grave
John Brown's body lies a-mold'ring in the grave
His soul goes marching on

Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!
His soul is marching on

He captured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so true
He frightened old Virginia till she trembled
through and through
They hung him for a traitor, themselves the traitor crew
His soul is marching on

Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!

His soul is marching on
John Brown died that the slave might be free,
John Brown died that the slave might be free,
John Brown died that the slave might be free,
But his soul is marching on!

Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!
His soul is marching on

The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down
The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down
The stars above in Heaven are looking kindly down
On the grave of old John Brown

Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory, Glory! Hallelujah!
His soul is marching on

Vicky Smith · Member

A BLOCK

Here's an excerpt I found from the biography of Fredric Douglas:

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/jbrown/fdlife.html

If we want to make this completely accurate we're going to need four people for this scene instead of two.

Justin BRAGA · Veteran Member

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/filmmore/reference/primary/index.html

That is a very good link, A Block, for primary source documents. By the way I hope everyone is doing their research topics for the weekend. We can hopefullly review the order of events for our play tomorrow.

Sarah Flood · Veteran Member

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/top/first-name/john/last-name/brown/

Some very useful John brown quotes to possibly use in the script.

courtney · Veteran Member

A BLOCK

Heyy guys sorry i didnt send the "plan out" But i was in a rush in the computer lab and it didnt go through. I didnt want to post it on here. Soo i made print outs for everyone and i will hand them out tommorow.!