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John Brown Going to His Hanging, by Horace Pippin, 1942.
Credit: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, John Lambert Fund
John Brown Going to His Hanging, by Horace Pippin, 1942. Pippin's mother Christine told of how her mother had been a slave in Virginia and had watched the hanging of the antislavery leader John Brown. Horace's grandmother appears in the painting, in the lower right hand corner. John Brown is shown tied with rope and sitting on his own coffin