John Brown

Abolitionist even went further by raiding southern armory and to spark a slave insurrection, John Brown, a northern abolitionist is example of such. “Brown failed to fulfil his goals…Southerners expressed outrage…it will bring sectional tension to breaking point” (Murphy 157). Since the Southerners felt that the North has attacked their land, they were outraged. Although Brown was killed for treason, the North hailed him as a hero. This made the Northerners insisted on the Southerners…

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…

action that was ideologically in favor of their beliefs, but starkly in contrast when it came to methods. Ultimately, perhaps because of this, Henry David Thoreau largely meanders around John Brown’s violent methods when discussing his actions. Henry David Thoreau’s…

John Brown; hero, criminal, or insane? John Brown was a 19th-century belligerent abolitionist who is well known for his raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859. John Brown was born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut. Growing up with a father who strongly disapproved of slavery, Brown was highly motivated in creating a slave insurrection. He strongly believed in violently taking care of entities. The actions taken upon by John Brown led others to view him in different ways. His work led him to…

John Brown was an abolitionist who was fighting for the rights of slaves, even if it meant it would cost him his life. John Brown was an abolitionist who was anti-slavery, trying to help slaves, and letting them have a vote. He died from committing multiple crimes to give freedom to the slaves. John Brown only wanted what was best, and to make it count, he started to use violence, which showed how committed he was to helping the slaves. John Brown was a hero because he tried to raise money and…

One of those people was John Brown, an abolitionist from Connecticut. Transcendentalists believed that God’s will never changed and supported the anti-slavery cause. They believed that God loved everyone and that all people were equal. But, they didn’t support violence and murdering people, no matter what the cause. John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut in 1800 to parents Owen Brown and Ruth Mills. When John’s mom died, his father married Sally Root. In total, John…

be changed, John Brown informed Fredrick Douglas about his plans; he summoned that, “When I strike, the bees will begin to swarm, and I want you to help hive them.” For John Brown, striking was not the hard part, getting the ‘bees to swarm’ was. Growing up in Connecticut, John Brown was an abolitionist who always hated the idea of slavery. With two previous marriages and twenty children, Brown did not miss out on any opportunity to spread his anti-slavery views. To help slaves Brown moved his…

believe John Brown is terrorist. But it also depends on where you lived at the time. If you were from the South than you most likely see him as terrorist. But if your north than you see him as a freedom fighter. Growing up John Brown had a rough child hood. When he was just 8 his mom passed away. And that was very hard on him. When he was 12 he was walking down a road and had to watch a slave be beat, this led him to start a "eternal war with slavery". And that was when it all started. John…

John Brown, freedom fighter or a terrorist? I believe he is a freedom fighter. He might have brought mayhem and killed many people, but he had a very good reason. He might`ve thought that he had good intentions. Which I say he did but the way he approached it wasn’t that good. I still think he is a freedom fighter though. One of the major reasons on why I believe he is a freedom fighter. Is that He had a very good reason to. Back then blacks were not even called people, they were just seen…

John Brown is not a terrorist because he was just trying to do the right thing. He was trying to get the message out that do whatever it takes to help somebody that is getting whipped and treated like a dog. So the question is would you kill 5 settlers in Pottawatomie Creek? I would kill 5 settlers that were treating slaves like they were worthless. The world would define terrorism as if it was a suicide bomber because it is just a part of the law. When I say this I mean that any country has…