- Joined
- Apr 4, 2017
- Location
- Denver, CO
John Brown, at Harper's Ferry, did not do much to alarm slaves that he was going to help them try to escape. Of course, there weren't many slaves in western Virginia, or Harper's Ferry, so it was a strange place to attempt to start a slave revolt.
His experiences in Kansas has traumatized him. And he had to wonder why citizens would not stick together and defend themselves. When the Kansans did stick together, politicians were willing to help them.
Brown was not very successful in life, so he was looking for a way to make a name for himself.
But he had also come to the point at which he decided it might be better to fight and to die, than to live passively in fear of secessionist power.
He attacked a federal facility, which put the federal government in the position of repressing a so called slave revolt.
The purpose of John Brown may have been to communicate by a public act, the idea that was being discussed more privately in New England, that if a person cannot stand up for what the believe in, are they either enabling the thing they oppose, or equally enslaved.
What John Brown did with unlawful violence, Abraham Lincoln did politically and verbally. Lincoln stated more or less, that the North was not going to go along with slavery any longer.
His experiences in Kansas has traumatized him. And he had to wonder why citizens would not stick together and defend themselves. When the Kansans did stick together, politicians were willing to help them.
Brown was not very successful in life, so he was looking for a way to make a name for himself.
But he had also come to the point at which he decided it might be better to fight and to die, than to live passively in fear of secessionist power.
He attacked a federal facility, which put the federal government in the position of repressing a so called slave revolt.
The purpose of John Brown may have been to communicate by a public act, the idea that was being discussed more privately in New England, that if a person cannot stand up for what the believe in, are they either enabling the thing they oppose, or equally enslaved.
What John Brown did with unlawful violence, Abraham Lincoln did politically and verbally. Lincoln stated more or less, that the North was not going to go along with slavery any longer.
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