How Did The Slavery Revolution Affect The Life Of John Brown

Another event, Bleeding Kansas can mainly be said to have led to the Civil War because it led to the establishment of the Republican Party. Bleeding Kansas was when the U.S. gave Kansas the right for their citizens to vote whether they wanted Kansas to be a free state or a slave state. If Bleeding Kansas never happened, Kansas would have been a free state. What happened is that Missouri’s citizens wanted Kansas to become a slave state. So, they snuck into Kansas and voted slavery for Kansas. Missouri’s citizens then went around Kansas, and killed many people that did not vote slavery. Then In 1857, Dred Scott was a Virginia slave who tried to sue for his freedom in court.  The case rose to the Supreme Court, where it was said if a slave goes up to a free state which is illegal to have slaves, the slave would be free. Then came about The Scott Decision which court rules African Americans were not, nor could ever be, citizens of the United States. Congress cannot prohibit slavery and it was considered the worst Supreme Court decision in history. In 1859, the militant abolitionist John Brown seized the U.S. arsenal at Harper 's Ferry, VA. He commanded anti-slavery forces and planned to end slavery by killing slave owners and freeing their slaves. Twenty-one individuals take part in the raid but John Brown is soon captured and hung. A quote from a newspaper at the time by Alan Farmer, "The Harper 's ferry invasion has advanced the cause of disunion more than any other event

John Brown single-handedly created the sparks that led to the southern secession. John Brown was a religious man who believed in “an eye for an eye”. He was willing to use as much violence as necessary for his cause even if it was extreme. In 1864, John Brown lead a group of men to kill five pro-slavery men because of a rumor he heard about the murder of anti-slavery men. This tradesy is known as the Pottawatomie Massacre. Document B shows that Brown had “torn, hacked and disfigured” men at Pottawatomie. This brutal massacre proves that Brown’s actions were unheroic and ended up upsetting many men. When other pro-slavery men heard about his incident they were enraged. The murders of the men led to a series of violent events between the proslavery

Throughout this time, the North was growing rapidly due to its industrial economy. They had more railroad mileage, industry, income, population, and ultimately more representation in Congress. In addition, the South was subject to high tariff laws that made it very hard for southern farmers to trade internationally. The result was a strong centralized government in the North, and an agrarian culture in the South that was solely dependent on slavery. Any attack against the institution of slavery in the South could potentially disintegrate the states in the South. In 1859, this fear became a reality as John Brown, an extreme abolitionist, led a raid on at Harpers Ferry. Although this uprising was brought down and denounced by Northern Republicans, slave owners believed that all abolitionists and Northerners shared the same radical views as John Brown.

Dred Scott was an African-American who traveled to the North with his owners and when they attempted to sue his owners for slavery for it was not allowed in the free state that they went to. The case gained so much momentum that it was brought to the Supreme Court to rule upon. The court ruled in 7-2 deinging Dred Scott 's request and ruling against congress saying it was unconstitutional. The court’s rationale is that a black man no matter in the north or south “could never be considered citizens of the United States or be protected by the United States Constitution” The decision impacted the sectional crisis by outraging both Republicans and Abolitionist movements that were gaining momentum in the North. The argument about allowing slavery into new states also started radicals like John Brown to try and start a slave rebellion when he committed to raiding Harpers Ferry. The debate of allowing or getting rid of Slavery has stopped being diplomatic and started to turn violent.

The states rights, the Fugitive slave act, and how the line could not totally hold in which states would be totally free, these slaves had it harsh but the only way to freedom was to the north. Some helping slave made a place to be free and help to get there like the underground railroad. States rights made it so these slaves could have that idea of freedom and liberty in this country. Some abolitionist wanted to free the slaves by peaceful means and some like John Brown did not think so and sought violence to be the key to freedom for these slaves. In 1859 John Brown led an attack on Harper's Ferry, an ammunition camp, he captured this camp and he saw that the only way to free slaves was guns and violence. After he captured the camp and armed some slaves he had to fight a militia and lost, he was hanged three days later. Many things happened because the idea of freedom in the south and slaves mind, especially the underground railroad growing and helping more slaves become free, but sometimes there was no help and so the slaves organized rebellions, one such huge one was Nat Turner's rebellion. Nat’s rebellion was a brutal rebellion, of slaves, going house to house killing plantation owners and freeing more slaves as they went. But as all rebellions end in defeat, there was no revolution and they lost leaving a

John Brown is an American Abolitionist who believed in abolishing slavery across the nation through killing any southern slaveholder or supporter that comes in his path. It is believed that he had a plan to gather all the free slaves and rebel against the southern states, but his rebellion never made it that far. His rebellion started in Kansas in 1855 and ended in December 1858 at Harpers Ferry leading to him being convicted and hung for his crimes. John Brown had one motive that made him do these so called “crimes” by justifying his actions as obedience to a just god (31). This is the same reason today 's terrorist do their acts of terrorism and his actions make me see him as a terrorist.

John Brown was a hero. His reasoning for raiding Harper’s Ferry was that he wanted to abolish slavery. Events that led to the raid was the Dred Scott case and how a slave sued for his freedom because his master took him to Wisconsin, a free state. The Supreme Court ruled against Scott and said that black people whether they were free or not couldn't sue because they weren't citizens and that slaves were property and that they could be taken anywhere. Other news was the new territories and deciding on whether “it be slaving owning or free (video 0:14).” Which started the Kansas protest that was once peaceful turned violent. This was the start of John Brown and him wanting to end slavery because he was chosen to by God.The plan was to take control

The first of the three reasons that John Brown became a violent protester to slavery are as follows. In his mind, John believed that he was fulfilling their struggle for freedom in terms of the revolutionary soldier and puritan that he had descended from (3). In other words, the fight was already in him, he was trying to do good because he already saw what the puritans had went through to achieve their freedom. It was in his blood so to speak. The second of the three reasons is that John believed that God had called him to make do this for the slaves. John Brown was a very religious man as it talks about him going to church and evening going as far as making his children write down their sins they committed in the day. (17) The third and final reason for John browns turn to violence is the fact that he did not believe that a non violent tactic would work against the pro slavery people. The massacre of Pottawatomie was a true example of what John Brown believed was the correct way to handle this problem of slavery.

John Brown was an active abolitionist. He was part of an anti-slavery group in Massachusetts, in which they took part in doing what they could to end slavery. There were 2 sides to the slavery issue, the abolitionists who were against slavery and the pro-slavery people who were for it. This affected how things were then because it was the main conflict. Those who were against slavery did what they could to stop it, while those who were for it

Why would John Brown be considered a revolutionary if he did so many bad things to try to end slavery? John Brown was an abolitionist during the 1800’s. The reason why John Brown became an abolitionist was because when he was younger he witnessed a slave get harshly beaten and John did not like it. Brown also did not like the idea of people owning slaves. John Brown thought that if he could kill the slave owners, and free the slaves, that he could end slav-ery. John Brown died after he and a group of seventeen whites and five blacks attacked Harper’s Ferry, on October 16, 1859. John Brown was trying to get weapons for the slaves to fight with. General Lee’s troops fought back and ended up killing two of John Brown’s sons. Brown was hanged December 2, 1859.

On November 2, 1859 Brown went to court and was found guilty of treason and murder. Right before Brown was hanged, he handed his guard a statement. It read, “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” This statement predicts that there will be a war between abolitionists and proslavery

Scott John Hammond convey a different transition in our American history, John Brown was fueled on freedom of religion and human race. According to the article John Brown: America's First Terrorist? , "For southerners, Brown was the embodiment of all their fears- a white man willing to die to end slavery. For many Northerners, he was a prophet of righteousness"(Finkelman). Folks from the North was well aware that Brown violent acts was the start of a revolution to end slavery and satisfy the purpose of the Declaration of Independence. On the other hand, the southerners differed his principle of "freedom" he was considered a threat to the union and a harm to society that need to be banished. Brown evaluated society according to the "laws

John Brown was a radical, Connecticut-born abolitionist who believed the most effective method of ousting the slavery system to be an incredibly violent and aggressive one. His inclination towards vindictive rebellion at the volatile time that surrounded the impending revolution begs the question: to what extent did John Brown’s influence in Kansas play a role in the commencement of the Civil War? As an evaluation of the Civil War instigation, John Brown’s robust abolitionist background and activist nature will fall under meticulous scrutiny. In reviewing this inquiry, encyclopedia entries, biographical accounts, historical narratives, and journal articles are all used in order to provide relevant information and support.

His ultimate goal was the creation of an independent black nation” (Father of American Terrorism- pg 146). John Brown was a strong freedom fighter, in the sense that he was willing to die so African Americans could be free. Brown believed that he had been appointed “a special agent of death” by God. He was convinced that he had been granted the right to kill people in order to liberate all black slaves, and it was because he believed God had given him this right that he began the rebellion at Pottawatomie Creek. To be a terrorist, John Brown would have had to purposely kill the innocent, in this case the innocent being abolitionists, purely to instill fear in the government.

Do you think John Brown would be considered a freedom fighter or a terrorist in today’s world with the actions he had in the 1800’s? John brown will be compared with other terrorist groups and freedom fighter groups. That’s how we will see if he is a freedom fighter or a terrorist in today’s world. Due to all the killing to free the slaves at Harpers Ferry and Pottawatomie Creek, John Brown’s actions at Harpers Ferry and Pottawatomie Creek are not justified because directly targeting the government institutions, I consider him a terrorist.