Rice-Eccles Stadium, Rice Stadium, Ute Stadium. Although the name has changed, the University of Utah football team has played their home games at the same address since 1927. But oh how it has changed.
Brown escalated the debate over slavery to the point that it sparked the Civil War via his raid on Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859. Brownâs contemporaries and historians have been debating his motivations to take up arms against proslavery forces since he unsheathed his sword against slavery in Kansas Territory.
[Ã] CLOSE. John Brown, seen here c. 1856, led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry that propelled the nation closer to civil war. (Newscom). John Brown and many of his followers waited in a fire engine house for reinforcement by a swarm of beesâslaves from the surrounding area.he abolitionist's bloody raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry 150 years ago set the stage for the Civil War. John Brown and many of his followers holed up in the fire engine house awaiting reinforcements by a swarm of beesâslaves from the surrounding area. But only a handful showed up.