John Brown's plan was to provoke a massive slave revolt in the South which would scare the entire institution of slavery in the United States. He planned to do this by first raiding Harper's Ferry for weapons and then go take the slaves and give them the weapons and free even more slaves and give them weapons too. He wasn’t going to stop until he took over the entire state. Once he did the state government, he would move onto the next state and repeat the process until all the slaves were freed. But it didn’t work out in his favor a he expected. What happened was he took control of the railroad station, musket factory, rifle works, and weapons and kidnapped slaves owners…then later on that day a group full of angry townsmen surrounded Brown
