The Pikes Are Important for Freed Slave Emancipation

In 1858, John Brown met Harriet Tubman and led dozens of slaves to freedom. He felt that immediately arming freed slaves was a critical step in their emancipation stating, give us slave a pike and you make him a man. In letters to her, Brown admitted that his work had left her in a kind of widowed state. Owen Brown traveled with his father in 1858 as he sought final support for his impending invasion of the south.