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John Brown and the surviving insurrectionist were not given a trial but were swiftly put to execution. Why were they not afforded a trial?

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The arrest, trial, and execution of John Brown in the fall of 1859 came at a critical following his failed attempt to begin a slave insurrection near Harper's Ferry.

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