No. 3 For 12 years, John Brown engaged in land speculations and wool merchandising; all this to make some money for his greater work which was the abolishment of slavery.

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A screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts a kneeling John Brown, dressed in black, hammering a wooden marker into the ground while surveying land. To the proper right of Brown is a black, open briefcase and a yellow tripod. A yellow flag, in the bottom left of the print, has three strings connected to it. The two outward strings are stretched to create a right angle and the third string is connected to the wooden marker Brown is hammering. The land is brown with a large patch of green grass to the proper left of Brown. On the front of the print, the artist wrote the series number and edition in the lower left corner [#3 51/60] and signed and dated in the lower right corner [Jacob Lawrence 1977].

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