Most white Americans remembered John Brown with ambivalence, but as Con points out, Brown “occupied a special place in African-American memory.” In The Trial of John Brown, Conn insightfully observes that “Pippin has painted all fourteen men in this composition with virtually identical faces, creating a visual pun on the phrase ‘jury of one’s peers.'” ...In the cases of both Brown and Lincoln, Pippin is creating a new mythology for these historic figures. His paintings tell us less about John Brown and Abraham Lincoln as actual men and more about how these two figures were mythologized by some members of the African American community. (http://www.gwarlingo.com/2013/horace-pippin/)