[Bull Snipe]

Which wealthy industrialists funded John Brown’s raid?

[onedoug]

One was Thomas Wentworth Higginson who was one of Emily Dickinson’s close friends.

[jeffersondem]

“Which wealthy industrialists funded John Brown’s raid?”

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-secret-six-1773344

[Pelham]

Brown’s main backers were known as “The Secret Six”:

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel Gridley Howe, Theodore Parker, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Gerrit Smith, and George Luther Stearns.

Of them, Stearns and Smith were wealthy. Stearns is the only one who was an industrialist.

But they may have collected money from others who supported the abolitionist cause and used it to fund Brown. It’s been years since I studied them and I don’t remember that aspect. Donors outside of the Six wouldn’t have been privy to Brown’s plan.