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    also the value of non-violent resistance supported by the transcendentalists and, There were many prominent figures in the Abolition movement that made great strides to freedom. Most took the route of political campaigning, but a few decided to take a more direct approach. One said individual is John Brown. John Brown was a white abolitionist born in Connecticut who simply grew tired of the pacifist approach and took up arms with a few volunteers against slavery. Brown was born the son of Owen

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    Sleek, Powerful, and Intelligent Protector Born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Wentworth, North Carolina, John Brown a freshman at Rockingham Community College is a panther in disguise lying in wait for his next opponent. Brown, who comes from a long line of wrestlers, is far more powerful than most observers would expect from his wiry frame. Although he weighs only 145 pounds, Brown can bench press 200 pounds making him formidable on the mat. Since he began competing in the sport at

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    separate states as North to be free state and South to be slave state so then there could be farm workers for free that doing the job, after couple years later when Henry Clay passed away it led up to Bloody Kansas from his actions that he have took by doing free state and slave state, after Bloody kansas was over, it led up to Civil War to fight for free slaves also end slavery completely. Henry Clay and his party have talked about how to set this Missouri Compromise boundary line up and see what state

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    Celia's Trial

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    Missouri who would conduct her trial and determined her fate were being drawn into yet emotionally charged debate over slavery and it future in the neighboring Kansas Territory” (McLaurin,66). Missouri was affected by the outcome in Kansas “Thus, on the eve of Celia’s trial, the reverberations of an increasingly violent struggle over slavery in Kansas had disrupted the public tranquility in Missouri and threatened with discord, the state’s basic political, legal, and social institutions” (McLaurin ,78)

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    John Brown was an abolitionist who attempted to free slaves. He had a strong hatred for slavery. Many abolitionists moved to Kansas since the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 which gave states the right to decide if they would allow slavery. They wanted to make Kansas a non-slave state. In 1855 Brown and his family moved to Osawatomie Kansas, he bought land and had a farm. In 1856 the town of Lawrence which was near where they lived was fiercely attacked and burned by men who were proslavery. Only a few

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    John Brown was a radical abolitionist who believed strongly in the equality between all people, despite skin color or ethnicity. Since childhood, John Brown had been a devout Calvinist, believing that God wanted all people to be equal. He believed that his purpose on earth was to put an end to slavery, as seen in the quote “he had been predestined to bring an end to slavery, which he believed with burning certitude was a sin against God”. Given the mark he left on America after the Pottawatomie Creek

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    John Brown is a man whose ideas, views, beliefs, and actions caused and still causes a lot of different opinions. During his time he was considered one of two things; a martyr or an insane murderer. Some people even say that he may of been one of the causes of the Civil War by bringing the issue of slavery to light and pushing the South's patience. Brown was obsessed with slavery and he thought that the only way to bring an end to it was through armed revolt. Brown decided to try and raid a federal

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    John Brown Martyr

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    Some believed that John Brown was a maniac more than a martyr, but history proves that he was more of a martyr. John Brown believed that all men should be considered equal and have the right to freedom. Beginning in his early childhood and all the way though his life, he had a passion to abolish slavery. Learning from a young age, that all men should have the right to freedom and equality, started a fire inside of John Brown. This was a burning passion to help free slaves and make the world a better

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    John Brown's actions were modern day terrorist acts with the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre and raid on Harpers Ferry being unjustified, concluding that John Brown is a terrorist and not a freedom fighter. May 24th and 25th John Brown and others murdered five pro-slavery settlers. 1859 John Brown lead a slave revolt into a United States military arsenal at Harpers Ferry. These actions are attacking innocent people. His purposes to the attacks were unjustified, just unreasonable, ridiculous.

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    John Brown Thesis

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    Growing up John Brown didn’t have his own decisions on the topic of slavery, his father made it up for him to be against It. John's father was an abolitionist and a very outspoken man at many anti slavery rally's.The part Johns brown father plays made a big impact on his life. People make mistakes in life it's just what we do, he took it to far. Johns asspirations were of good intentions in the beginning he just wanted to abolish slavery and make right what people have done to people of color. John

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