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John Brown was very important in some ways. He tried to free slaves from Southern states but, he did it wrongfully. John Brown was a very mean and violent man. Yes, he was trying to free slaves but he was doing it the wrong way. He also went against the United States Government, by not using his representatives and protesting violently. So when he got hanged on December 2, 1859, his actions were justified. To start, John Brown was very violent, he used violence to reach his goals, which included a deadly raid where he killed two innocent people in Kansas Territory, by his actions this raid got the name of “Bleeding Kansas.” In the document: “John Brown- A Radical Murderer” it states that “ By 1859, Brown had a plan for reaching his goal of defeating slavery through Violence. He planned to use guns and other weapons that he captured at Harper’s Ferry to arm Virginian slaves.” This is showing that instead of using his representatives to help free slaves in Congress, but instead he used violence. Then John Brown went to a proslavery town October 16, 1859 and killed five settlers with twenty-one men with him on another raid. The raids John Brown went on was an act of terrorism. …show more content…

According to the document “John Brown- A Radical Murderer” it states that “ Most northern anti-slavery groups did not agree with John Brown's raid. [...] It was started by Northern abolitionists. It was an act that forced Southern state legislatures to pass emergency action.” So then the South needed to prepare for fights in the future with the Northerns. Also, William Lloyd Garrison was a leader for anti-slavery movement but called the Harpers raid a “misguided” and “insane” act. So in this article it proves that yes, John brown was trying to free slaves yet, he was doing it

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Treason, the act betraying one’s country or attempt to overthrow the government. John Brown did no such thing as a peaceful approach would gain nothing. Document B: Last Meeting Between Frederick Douglass and John Brown; Although the plan to attack a Federal Arsenal was “a measure to be fatal” according to Frederick Douglass. Despite the fact of taking the peculiar measures to end slavery, Brown still went through with his plans. When Brown and his men were either killed or captured people had mixed thoughts and feelings toward them.

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In document F, John Brown says, “I have, it may please the Court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted.”. He also said in document G that his statements clashed and that he did not intend for there to be any killing, but just to place the slaves in a condition to defend their liberties. This example shows that John Brown was untrustworthy and went against his word by denying all of his actions and even admitting to his statements not matching up at all. He also said that he did not intend for there to be any killing.

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Killing is wrong, especially when the victims are innocent, like these three men. “... you can’t say you did it to free our slaves, we had none and never expected to own one... “ Mahala wrote in her letter to John Brown. John Brown was given $5,000 to help slaves defend themselves, but used it to attempt attack on their owners. The evidence in Document D shows the National Kansas Committee had sent John Brown $5,000 for defensive purposes on January 24th, 1857.

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Brown used violence and treason to obtain slaves. in order to take property and murder people, he forcibly took the slaves hostage. “Took property, & two white men; & then sent the two White men back.” (Document A) “The other

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“John Brown was known as a madman who used excessive force in order to achieve his goals” says Joseph R. Gilmore, but who was John Brown? John Brown was an abolitionist trying to free slaves, except he did that with so much violence and killing innocent people. It was also later revealed that those weren’t even his true intentions. This information is very important since most people think that he was an amazing person who just wanted to free slaves, but that was not the whole truth. John Brown was a villain because he killed innocent people and took them captive, he lied about everything in court, and he tried to start a civil war.

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John Brown’s Raid was the effort by John Brown to initiate a slave revolt, and his first objective was to arm slaves by trying to take over the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry. John Brown and twenty other men who joined him, including three of his sons and about fourteen African-Americans, went into the town of Harpers Ferry. Brown split up the group into the two, this proved to be the biggest mistake of the whole operation, with one group going to capture Colonel Lewis Washington along with other hostages. The main group, led by John Brown, intercepted a train in hope that slaves in the next town would hear about the rebellion and join it, but no slaves heard about it. After intercepting the train, the group went on to seize the armory in Harpers Ferry.

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Document F shows that John Brown said he meant to take the slaves to Canada peacefully. However, he also ordered 1,000 pikes 2 years earlier (Document C). Also, in Document G, John Brown admits that he only meant to give them pikes and not take them to Canada. This shows that even though he was on trial, he still decided to lie and try to save himself. Also, it seemed that he didn’t know what he was doing, and might have lied to his supporters as

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The second reason, John Brown led a revolt. “These men are all talk, what we need is action, action!” John Brown said before He and his men (in October 16, 1859) raided the Federal Arsenal armory, and as a result, shook the south. Upon hearing he was going to be hung he stated: “…if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments--I submit; so let it be done!”

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He saw the wrong in owning slaves. He believed what he was doing and what he believed in was right not wrong. He was hung with the pleasure of knowing he made an impact on the world. John Brown tried very hard to do anything to please god and free slaves.

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John Brown said before being hung,“(I) Never intended murder, treason, or destruction of property or the excite or incite the slave to rebellion or make insurrection.” During 1857, John Brown, an abolitionist, was raising money to help abolish slavery in the South, also to get an uprising of the slaves and to create a rebellion. The main plan of the raid was to get the slaves to join his rebellion, but it failed as a raid. Even though it failed as a raid it created a greater divide between the North and South. The last words of Brown were given to a guard before his hanging and those words were, “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.”

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Moreover the first time John Brown witnessed slavery was when he was very young and he was in Ohio with his father. He saw a slave that was about his age being whipped by his master and this significantly influenced his anger towards slavery. He first decides to stand up against slavery on

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George Fitzhugh claimed that "The Negro slaves of the South are the happiest the freest people in the world." (Document H). John Brown a major person in the fight to end slavery "led a band of 18 men into Virginia to seize the federal arsenal there, distribute the captured arms to slaves in the area, and create a general slave uprising." (Document I).John Brown was executed and the aftermath of his death made tensions rise betwwen the North and South. "

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John Brown was an abolitionist that saw it as his duty to be a spokesperson as well as a fighter on the forefront in abolishing slavery. In his time, he took into his own hands to physically make a change for the sake of freeing slaves. On October 16, 1859, John Brown led eighteen men in a raid to capture a federal arsenal located in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. This arsenal contained rifles, muskets, and pistol, which he intended to give to slaves to provoke and lead an armed slave rebellion. During this raid Brown thought slaves would join his eighteen men to help them conquer the arsenal and to then start their rebellion, since he planned this to help the salves, but no slaves came to help Brown and his men.

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Brown was attempted by the condition of Virginia for injustice and murder, and discovered liable on November 2.The 59-year-old abolitionist went to the scaffold on December 2, 1859. Before brown was about to be executed he gave a guard a piece of paper that said “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with

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Looking at what he has fought for, it’s no doubt that he fought for a noble cause which is the freedom of slavery. John Brown shouldn’t be known as hero or terrorists because of want he has done applies to both sides. John Brown shouldn’t be known as a terrorist or a national hero because of his violent attack and raids. After, September 11, 2001 John Brown has been called a terrorist which has caused controversy about Brown’s legacy and reputation. Furthermore, in the article, The 9/11 of 1859 says, “He led 21 men all but two in their 20s, and many of them radicalized by guerilla fighting in Bleeding Kansas, the abolitionists’ Afghanistan”(Horowitz).

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