I agree with the jury’s decision that John Brown is guilty of treason. John Brown killed innocent people in his act of “freeing” slaves. Many families were ruined because of him. They lost their homes and loved ones. As Colonel Lewis A. Washington said “holding people like me hostage with a gun to our heads and killing innocent people”. John Brown was holding people hostage and killing them to free slaves? Those things don’t connect. If you were trying to free slaves you would go to the slaves and free them, but John Brown killed and traumatized many young people that day. John Brown was also trying to steal from the government which is considered treason. Colonel Robert E. Lee said “The defendant illegally entered the structure of Harpers
