This exhibition is the first-ever critical analysis by a southern institution of an episode that, on the eve of the Civil War, broke open sectionalist fissures. Brown demanded that his contemporaries take a moral stance on slavery, and to this day a mention of his attack spurs debate about issues of justice, terrorism, liberation, and vigilantism. VHS Curator of African American History, Dr. Lauranett Lee, will explore how Brown's raid and its aftermath have been remembered in the African American community.