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.
John Brown. On October 16th in 1859, an ardent abolitionist, John Brown led an interracial group of 21 men to the arsenal at Harpers Ferry Virginia. Brown's objective was to seize the arsenal and spark a slave revolt across the South.