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Well since the name john brown is such an ordinary, common name, it probably has something to do with normality and plain-ness. Did that help you?
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John Brown was a white abolitionist who killed white people in his quest to free slaves. Among Southern whites, his name became synonymous to someone crazy. You had to be crazy to do what he was doing. So, as a self-put down, whites would say about a foolish act on their part, “I’ll be John Brown”
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How did the Dred Scott decision and Brown's Harpers Ferry raid deepened sectional antagonism?
John Brown's Raid was the ill-fated attempt of the New Englander to free Virginia's slaves by raiding Harpers Ferry, in 1859.
How successful was john browns raid on harpers ferry?
John Brown's plot to cause a slave revolt was not successful. Abolitionist, and former slave aided Brown before the raid but did not participate in it. Harriet Tubman was ill and other abolitionists didn't think he would be successful. Brown tried to enlist Black scholar Frederick Douglas in the plot, but Douglas informed him he was crazy. Brown was hanged fir treason.
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