Comparing The Abolitionists: John Brown And Harriet Beecher Stowe

In the 1800’s many people acted against slavery and were abolitionists. These people used many strategies from helping runaways to riots to publishing written works. To begin they all had different but similar reasons for fighting against slavery. Both Brown Stowe were influenced by religion yet Brown witnessed a slave get beat as a child witch helped to persuade him. Stow on the other hand lost a child and this lead her to sympathize with the slaves whose family members have been sold and taken away from them. Tubman however had much more powerful experiences. She started abolitionism because she was a slave who had run away when it had gotten to be too much. Three abolitionists, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and Harriet Beecher Stowe use very

John Brown preferred uprisings and physically violent protest, which ended up getting him hanged in the end. Harriet Beecher Stowe on the other hand preferred to use much less physically violent methods and much more verbally violent and descriptive means by writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin which is about the hardship of a slave. Although her methods were less violent than John Brown, Stowe still had a slightly more violent approach then Harriet Tubman. Tubman was a former slave who made in total 19 trips back into the south after she escaped. One method of strategy is in stark contrast to Stowe's strategy where Tubman was illiterate yet she pretended to read to get people off her tail while Stowe wrote and published multiple books. Both women were spoken highly of by fellow abolitionists and even went on to help in the women's rights movement. Another abolitionist that was spoken highly of was John Brown. Brown was a conductor on the underground railroad, a position he and Tubman shared along with many others. They both were also directly involved with the slave community and, while Brown was much more so, both could be violent. Brown lead a riot and Tubman used threats against slaves to get them free. They were both also wanted for what they did, although Tubman never got