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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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.
The raid deepened the division between the North and South
So that the slave owners would a lesson on keeping slaves
Because they thought he was trying to do the right thing
Harpers Ferry is in West Virginia.
The South identified Abolitionism with violent revolution.