The John Brown And The Pottawatomie Massacre

‘Fire in a canebrake’ is quite a scorcher by Laura Wexler and which focuses on the last mass lynching which occurred in the American Deep South, the one in the heartland of rural Georgia, precisely Walton County, Georgia on 25th July, 1946, less than a year after the Second World War. Wexler narrates the story of the four black sharecroppers who met their end ‘at the hand of person’s unknown’ when an undisclosed number of white men simply shot the blacks to death. The author concentrates on the way the evidence was collected in those eerie post war times and how the FBI was actually involved in the case, but how nothing came of their extensive investigations.

“John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was a radical abolitionist from the United States, who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to abolish slavery for good. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859. He was tried and executed for treason against the

On October 16th, 1859 John Brown and 21 men lead a raid to the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to arm all of the slaves in the area with weapons. How ever after 36 hours most of Brown’s men were either killed or captured. John Brown was captured and later hung west 8 miles in Charles Town

October, 1859 John Brown went after the federal arsenal at the Harper’s Ferry in Northwestern of Virginia. Brown was fighting against slavery and he gathers a group to help with the riot. Brown seized the army, he killed and injured many. He attempted to make the slaves involved and give them guns to protect them. They were afraid because they thought Brown would not successful aid them. John Brown riot provoked violence and played

Brown was going to gather a group and raid a United States Federal Arsenal in Virginia , known as Harpers Ferry. According to The American Pageant, Brown had arranged a group of around twenty men, including several blacks. They had secured some firearms from northern abolitionists. On October 16, 1859, Brown had seized the federal arsenal, while doing this, he had accidently killed seven innocent people, injured ten or more people, and accidentally killed a free black. (Kennedy). He wanted to retrieve the weapons and arm the slaves, but he his plan went horribly wrong. According to “John Brown,” he was wounded in this raid, and half of his followers were killed (History.com). Also according to The American Pageant, he was arrested by U.S Marines (Kennedy). According to “The Trials of John Brown” Brown and the remaining people in his group were sent eight miles to Charles Town, there they were charged with three state charges; murder, inciting a slave rebellion, and treason against Virginia (Linder). According to “Witness and Testimony at the Trial of John Brown,” the set date for the trial to open was October 25. (De Witt). When the trial opened, according to “The Trials of John Brown,” Brown tried to get his trial to be delayed due to his injury, but his motion was denied. When the charges was read he had pleaded “not guilty” (Linder). John Brown's defense attorney was Lawson Bolts

The Pottawatomie Massacre happen one night on May 24,1856. John Brown was a Abolitionist he was against slavery he murders five men from pro-slavery settlement on pottawatomie creek. John brown led the anti-slavery and by many men and family. The victims who were killed were associated by franklin county court. The Pottawatomie Massacre was one several that stirred national over bleeding kansas and slavery.during the US territories in the mid

By early 1858, Brown had prospered in making his own “small army”. He was then able to release a group of slaves from Missouri. Subsequently he had done this he had held hostage dozens of men due to the fact that they had plans of insurrecting slaves. On October 16, 1859 John Brown led a party of twenty-one men raiding of the federal armory of Harpens Ferry in Virginia – what is now West Virginia. Lots of Brown’s men were murdered including two of his sons. Eventually he got defeated by military forces that were led by Robert E.

John Brown: Hero or Terrorist? On October 18th, 1859 John Brown, along with a group of white slavery abolitionists and free Black-Americans, raided a government arsenal located in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown planned to gather weapons and distribute them to slaves in the Southern states to inspire anti-slavery uprisings. Quickly, Brown’s raid failed and he was tried for treason, and later executed. When one thinks of the words “hero” and “terrorist”, one’s mind reaches for extremes.

Other northern abolitionists chose to support Brown financially in pursuit of the same goal. Brown’s raid sparked a fear and paranoia that the northern abolitionists were plotting to attack which lead to the torture and lynching of thousands of slaves. (Boyer, pg 419-420) Three years earlier, after the Sack of Lawrence, Brown and seven accomplices killed five men associated with the Lecompton Government. Known as the Pottawatomie Massacre, this attack confirmed the name of “Bleeding Kansas” and successfully created a battleground between the North and the South. (Boyer, pg 412) Brown was eventually tried for murder, slave insurrection and treason where he was convicted and hanged. Although he was not successful in causing any sort of slave revolt, John Brown’s actions resulted in tensions directed towards the Republican Party, northerners and eventually Abraham Lincoln himself. (Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica,“John Brown”) A second influential abolitionist, Harriet Beecher Stowe, was responsible for gaining the support of many northerners with her antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It was said by David Potter that the

The biggest tragedy of the colonization of the Americans was the genocide of the Native Americans. Europeans ambition towards gold/silver, turn into a tragic turn of events that ended up with the assassination of millions of Natives as a result, killing innocent children, infants and raping women along the way. The natives that were not killed were taken as slaves and sold in Peru and Hispaniola where they got the best prices for them.

In his time, John Brown was comparatively viewed as a criminal who was killed for his acts of treason and murder and as an anti-slavery freedom fighter. He is viewed as a controversial figure who fought against slavery, but by questionable means.

The paper thanks the slave who helped capture Turner to push the narrative of Turner and his men being evil instead of the insurrection being an issue of slavery. To further prove my point the article states “.They made an attack upon Mr. Blunt, a gentleman who was very unwell with the gout, and who instead of flying determined to brave them out. He had several pieces of firearms, perhaps seven or eight, and he put them into the hands of his own slaves, who nobly and gallantly stood by him. They repelled the brigands-killed one, wounded and took prisoner (Gen. Moore), and we believe took a third who was not wounded at all.” If you look at what was written, you’ll see that the blacks under Mr. Blunt were addressed as slaves who fought gallantly.

The cool air hangs over the city of boston hot and boiling in conflict. The situation is critical all people’s allegiances are tested. The beginning of the war the time Britain steps over the line comes. John Adams, a farmer and attorney moved his family into Boston to establish himself in law, After the Boston “Massacre”. Counseled in his advocacy by his beloved wife Abigail, Adams wins the case but surprises his friend, the Attorney General, by turning down a lucrative position with the Crown. As independence sentiment boils over in Massachusetts following the Intolerable Acts, Adams is invited to join the newly created Continental Congress. After a inspiring oratory to his constituents, he leaves his family with hope and promise to his

John Brown was a man who had dedicated his life to the abolition of slavery. He believed that any method used to abolish this cruel allowance of slavery was justified. Brown is notoriously known as an abolitionist who killed people as way to provoke serious change. While some say he killed people for a good reason, those who disagree hold the opinion that the killing of these people was terrible and did not solve the problem. Even though John Brown’s end goal was laudable, both the raid on Harpers Ferry and on Pottawatomie massacre demonstrate that his actions were in fact, acts of terrorism rather than heroism. There is never a justifiable reason to kill another human. In both the context of the Harpers Ferry raid, or the bloodshed in Pottawatomie, it is easy to see that John Brown was in fact a terrorist, rather than a hero.

The events that occurred on November 18, 1978 has rocked the psychological world on how Jim Jones was able to manage what is now known as the "Jonestown Suicides" or the "Jonestown Massacre". It all started from when Jim Jones created what was known as the Peoples Temple in the middle of Indianapolis in 1955 leading only just 20 followers at the time. After a year had past, the people’s temple started to make a name for itself by serving for the disadvantage and opening an orphanage. This started to draw a crowd to the temple and it manage to start almost a new religion. And when November 1978 arrived, Jim Jones managed to persuade 909 people to commit suicide that were a part of the people's temple at the time.