John Brown was either seen as a Hero or a villain. That is why he is a significant person in this time period. He had great intentions to stop slavery in his time. The fact that they viewed him as a villain was because he was one of the few white men that finally decide to take action and help slaves from their terrible slave lives. Basically, John Brown had a plan to invade the South and free the slaves. In 1859, Brown had enough support financially by the abolitionists because he was a son of an abolitionist, and then Brown made his plans to start a slave rebellion in Virginia. The plan was to spread the rebellion through the South. Later that year on October, Brown and eighteen of his men captured the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Then