Harpers Ferry

He was the man who, in 1859, led his sons and fellow abolitionists, Black and white, on a raid of the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in Virginia, now in West Virginia.

As a solo director, Albert has worked on the hilarious Raid on Harpers Ferry parody "Good Lord Bird," "Alpha" and now, "The Continental: From the World of John Wick."

When their articles were published, they often carried demeaning headlines like one on Mary Clemmer’s account of a Civil War battle: “The Battle of Harpers Ferry as a Woman Saw It.”

Maryland State Police rescued a hiker and his dog on Sunday after learning the two were stuck on a cliff above the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

The immediate cause was Northern celebration of John Brown, the abolitionist who attempted to provoke a slave rebellion by seizing the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.