 Rambai muchinyora ndima iyi - John Brown akapomerwa mhosva yokutengesa nyika kuCommonwealth yeVirginia, pamwe chete nokurangana uye kuponda kworudzi rwokutanga pashure pokunge atungamirira kurwisa kwake paHarpers Ferrymuna 1859. MuVirginia v. John Brown, akawanwa aine mhaka pamhosva dzose nhatu. Somugumisiro akaturikwa. Edwin Coppie anozivikanwawo saEdwin Coppock naAaron Dwight Stevens vakapomerwawo mhosva, vakatongerwa mhosva, uye vakasungirirwa nokuda kwokupandukira Commonwealth yeVirginia nemamwe mhosva. Mhosva dzokutengesa nyika dzaJohn Anthony Copeland Jr. naShields Green dzakabviswa, sezvo gweta ravo rakataura zvinobudirira kuti sezvo vakanga vasiri vagari veUnited States, maererano nechisarudzo cheDred Scott, vaisagona kuita kutengesa nyika; vakapomerwa mhosva ndokurovererwa nokuda kwemamwe mhaka. Albert Hazlett naJohn E. Cooke vakapomerwa mhosva yekupandukira Commonwealth yeVirginia uye vakawanikwa vasina mhosva yekupandukira, asi vakatongerwa mhosva dzezvimwe mhosva. 