Most Americans, north and south, did not believe that sedition against the US government was a good reason to advance any cause, not just freeing slaves. Violence instead of the rule of law was not condoned by Americans in general. The idea of a slave revolt was naturally not popular, even for those Americans that were against slavery. For hard core abolitionists, Brown was a martyr. Several civilians were killed in the retaking of the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
John Brown is Hanged
Harper's Ferry
Some northerners came to admire him for trying to end slavery. - Novanet
John browns raid and election of 1812
John Brown himself - hanged in December 1859. More serious was that the South took this a sign that Abolitionism was all about violent rebellion. It all helped to stoke up the heat.
The raid deepened the division between the North and South
The raid deepened the division between the North and South
because it stopped the comunists in the south from conquering Mexico
John Brown is Hanged
Some northerners came to admire him for trying to end slavery. - Novanet
Some northerners came to admire him for trying to end slavery. - Novanet
John Browns raid was at Harpers Ferry which is now in West Virginia.
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John Browns Raid took place in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1867 1867
Virginia