| Legend of John Brown #2: For forty years John Bown reflected on the hopeless and miserable condition of the slaves. | Jacob Lawrence | 1977 | Prints | 2008.15.2 | |
| Legend of John Brown #3: For twelve 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. | Jacob Lawrence | 1977 | Prints | 2008.15.3 | |
| Legend of John Brown #4: His ventures failing him, he accepted poverty. | Jacob Lawrence | 1977 | Prints | 2008.15.4 | |
| Legend of John Brown #5: John Brown, while tending his flock in Ohio, first communicated with his sons and daughters his plans of attacking slavery by force. | Jacob Lawrence | 1977 | Prints | 2008.15.5 | |
| Legend of John Brown #6: John Brown formed an organization among the colored people of the Adirondack woods to resist the capture of any fugitive slaves. | Jacob Lawrence | 1977 | Prints | 2008.15.6 | |
| Legend of John Brown #7: To the people he found worthy of trust, he communicated his plans. | Jacob Lawrence | 1977 | Prints | 2008.15.7 | |
| Legend of John Brown #8: John Brown's first thought of the place where he would make his attack came to him while surveying land for Oberlin College in West Virginia, 1840. | Jacob Lawrence | 1977 | Prints | 2008.15.8 | |
| Legend of John Brown #9: Kansas was now the skirmish ground of the Civil War. | Jacob Lawrence | 1977 | Prints | 2008.15.9 | |
| Legend of John Brown #10: Those pro-slavery were murdered by those anti-slavery. | Jacob Lawrence | 1977 | Prints | 2008.15.10 | |
| Legend of John Brown #11: John Brown took to guerrilla warfare. | Jacob Lawrence | 1977 | Prints | 2008.15.11 | |
| Legend of John Brown #12: John Brown's victory at Black Jack drove those pro-slavery to new fury, and those who were anti-slavery to new efforts. | Jacob Lawrence | 1977 | Prints | 2008.15.12 | |
| Legend of John Brown #13: John Brown, after long meditation, planned to fortify himself somewhere in the mountains of Virginia or Tennessee and there make raids on surrounding plantations, freeing slaves. | Jacob Lawrence | 1977 | Prints | 2008.15.13 | |
