In this episode ofThe Atlas Obscura Podcast,we visitJohn Brown’s farmin the Adirondacks of northernNew York.It’s a monument to the famous abolitionist and the last vestige of Timbuctoo, an ambitious but failed settlement that some hoped could help African Americans secure the right to vote.

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