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Choosing Violence - John Brown #2 - Extra History
🕑 Added 2023-03-10 18:30:01 +0000 UTCJohn Brown was an American abolitionist leader who fought for the equality of all races. He helped countless slaves reach freedom in his lifelong pursuit of equality but his use of violence as a necessary tool is highly controversial, even to this day.
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Jason Youngberg
This series would never be allowed in Florida classrooms.
Jason Youngberg
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Personally, I'd call those Missourians who crossed the border to vote illegally and threatened to kill people who spoke out against slavery the real terrorists.
Lou Hartman
Do we have any more context for Brown's conversation with Douglass where he argues that the North would join in to push out slavery if there was a full-on violent revolt? Was he wearing rose-colored glasses himself or trying to paint a good picture for Douglass? Because I think it's safe to say that the North would not at all have done that and Brown otherwise doesn't seem to be ignorant of how committed (or not committed) the average white Northerner was to the cause of abolition.
Margaret L. Carter
Having grown up in Virginia, I was surprised when I learned, in adulthood, that in the North Brown was considered a heroic martyr, In Virginia history lessons in elementary school, we were taught that Brown was a deranged murderer. What an enlightening contrast!
Abel Savard
No more than any Founding Father and far less hypocritical
Martin Verran
The more I hear about him, the more I cannot help but conclude that, yeeeeeah, there is sorta an argument that you could apply the word "terrorist" to Brown.
