This was because it was violent and too extreme.
Also, it was treason, which is illegal.
Some abolitionists disagreed with John Brown's actions because they were non-violent. They felt that active, armed attempts at abolition would result in active, armed attempts to keep slavery in tact. They feared the outbreak of a Civil War, which is exactly what happened not long after John Brown's raid.
John Brown was a failed farmer and a failed businessman. His raid on Harper's Ferry, and possibly others of his acts of domestic terrorism, were finances by a group of wealthy Abolitionists known as the Secret Six.
Which appeal is the best example of pathos?
Samuel Adams, a statesman and Founding Father, and John Adams, who would be President, were second cousins and protested British actions.
He cautiously supported civil rights.
Some abolitionists disagreed with John Brown's actions because they were non-violent. They felt that active, armed attempts at abolition would result in active, armed attempts to keep slavery in tact. They feared the outbreak of a Civil War, which is exactly what happened not long after John Brown's raid.
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To the Abolitionists, he as a Hero and Martyr. To the Southern slave owners, he was a Terrorist (to use an anachronistic contemporary term).
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No, but that was what John Brown clearly had in mind.
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Most of them didn't. The Abolitionists did. But most Northerners were not Abolitionists, and were just exasperated that all of this was bringing war nearer.
John Brown raided Harper'sFerry inVirginia.
John Brown was a radical and a murderer who was made a martyre by radical abolitionists.
SOMEONE AGAINST SLAVERY WAS DAVID BECKHAM called abolitionists. Nat Turner, Harriet B. Stowe, Fredrick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Charles and John Henry Langston, Robert Purivs, Theodore Weld, and Abby Kelley Foster