Object Details
- Description
- This pike was among 950 pikes that John Brown acquired to arm slaves incited to rebel by his raid on Harpers Ferry. The raid grew out of an earlier plan he devised in the mid-1840s.
- Location
- Currently on loan
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Blair, Charles
- date made
- ca 1858
- Credit Line
- Robert Hinckley
- Measurements
- overall: 81 1/4 in x 4 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 206.375 cm x 11.43 cm x 3.175 cm
- overall: 80 5/8 in x 4 3/4 in; 204.7875 cm x 12.065 cm
- Object Name
- pike
- Other Terms
- Edged Weapons; Army
