| JOHNBROWN | US abolitionist leader hanged after leading an unsuccessful rebellion of slaves at Harper's Ferry, Virginia |
| SWINGEING | Being hanged after swallowing drug? That's very severe |
| SWINGFORIT | Be hanged after a crime |
| RIEL | Metis leader hanged for treason |
| SPARTACUS | Leader of the 73BCE rebellion of slaves against the Romans |
| ICENI | Tribe of ancient Britons whose queen, Boudicca, led an unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans (5) |
| SHENANDOAH | US river in Virginia that enters the Potomac at Harpers Ferry (10) |
| STANCE | Point of view of holy person leading an Anglican organisation (6) |
| POTOMAC | It meets the Shenandoah at Harper's Ferry |
| JULIAWARDHOWE | US abolitionist and poet who authored The Battle Hymn of the Republic (5,4,4) |
| HOWE | Julia Ward ___, US abolitionist and poet who authored The Battle Hymn of the Republic (4) |
| DERVISH | A member of numerous Muslim fraternities leading an austere life (7) |
| SUSANBANTHONY | US abolitionist and women's rights activist (1820-1906) (5,1,7) |
| DOUGLASS | Frederick _, 19th-century US abolitionist and orator, born into slavery (8) |
| AVERY | Rosa Miller ___, 19th-century US abolitionist, suffragist and political writer (5) |
| CAESAREAN | Military leader, European, leading an operation |
| CHAGRIN | Church leading an expression of pleasure or displeasure |
| TRAVELSICKNESS | This might have stricken slaves at sea |
| OVERTHETOP | Going too far in leading an attack from the trenches? (4,3,3) |
| IMRENAGY | Hungarian communist Prime Minister executed in 1958 for leading an uprising against Soviet rule (4,4) |
