He was hung at Harpers Ferry, so he was dead before the war stared. The song that resulted from his death became a battle cry for the war.
John Brown's raid was an act of treason. Very few people saw any value to Brown's attempt to start a slave revolt. It had no effect on the US Civil War. This can be seen if Brown's raid never happened.
He helped to start the Civil War, and the war brought about the end of slavery.
John Brown was one of the strongest abolitionists in the Civil War. John Brown massacred 5 pro slavery people with his 4 sons prior to the war. From there he continued to serve as a figure to the anti-slavery movement and eventually became a matyr.
John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry was one of a myriad of events that sparked the Civil War. After his execution, John Brown became the country's most polarizing symbol and greatly increased the animosity between the supporters of slavery and the abolitionists. After John Brown, the South became even more fanatical in the defense of slavery. To his supporters, John Brown was a saint who died in the noble cause of ending slavery; to his opponents, he was an insane murderer.
His actions convinced the South that the Abolitionists wanted violent revolution, and this drove the two sides even further apart.
The John Brown's war was not a good war it is what sparked the Civil War. This started in the year 1859.
Herman Melville referred to John Brown as the "meteor of the war."
he was on the north
John Brown led raids with abolionists to revlot against salvery. He was a major influnece in the Civil War time, because he used violence to tell how made he was about slavery. John Brown was not an influence at all in the Civil War.
The union- He was an abolitionist.
He died before the civil war so he did not do anything in the war technically.
John Brown
John Brown's raid was an act of treason. Very few people saw any value to Brown's attempt to start a slave revolt. It had no effect on the US Civil War. This can be seen if Brown's raid never happened.
to capture john brown and his men.
John Brown's body.
He helped to start the Civil War, and the war brought about the end of slavery.
He sparked it off. Those were really the first shots of the war.