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Let do a What If in which we change the roles played by of John Brown and John Wilkes Booth in our civil war history... and the ending of the war ...
Let's say in 1859, John Wilkes Booth leads a bunch of white pro-slavery men and attacked Harpers Ferry and took over the Federal Arsenal. Their goal was to start a white uprising to a takeover of Maryland/Delaware by arms and to reclaim them as slave states. Booth believes once he secures the arsenal white pro-slavery men will hear his call to arms and come get their weapons from him and march on Maryland/Delaware... AS we know Col. Lee with Stuart wrestle control of the arsenal from Booth and he is later tried and hung in Virginia...
Let's say sometime between Jan and March of 1865, John Brown goes down to Richmond with the intention of either kidnapping or killing President Jeff Davis and he does in time shot and killed Jeff Davis in public in the back of the head. It makes a public display of his getaway but is hunted down and killed in a barn between Richmond and Maryland...
The last piece is the war still ends in April with Lee surrendering to General Grant at Appomattox...
What would be our Historical opinions of these men today? Would John Brown still be considered a martyr today? Would Booth be considered a crazed **** today?
Let us change the ending of the war and it was General Grant that surrenders to Lee in April in Virginia...
By changing to ending does Booth now become the martyr for the southern cause? Does John Brown become a crazed murderer for a lost war effort?
This What if is like a moral thought test of human values...
Let's say in 1859, John Wilkes Booth leads a bunch of white pro-slavery men and attacked Harpers Ferry and took over the Federal Arsenal. Their goal was to start a white uprising to a takeover of Maryland/Delaware by arms and to reclaim them as slave states. Booth believes once he secures the arsenal white pro-slavery men will hear his call to arms and come get their weapons from him and march on Maryland/Delaware... AS we know Col. Lee with Stuart wrestle control of the arsenal from Booth and he is later tried and hung in Virginia...
Let's say sometime between Jan and March of 1865, John Brown goes down to Richmond with the intention of either kidnapping or killing President Jeff Davis and he does in time shot and killed Jeff Davis in public in the back of the head. It makes a public display of his getaway but is hunted down and killed in a barn between Richmond and Maryland...
The last piece is the war still ends in April with Lee surrendering to General Grant at Appomattox...
What would be our Historical opinions of these men today? Would John Brown still be considered a martyr today? Would Booth be considered a crazed **** today?
Let us change the ending of the war and it was General Grant that surrenders to Lee in April in Virginia...
By changing to ending does Booth now become the martyr for the southern cause? Does John Brown become a crazed murderer for a lost war effort?
This What if is like a moral thought test of human values...