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To divide the nation further.

The Northern Abolitionists saw John Brown as a hero and a liberator (though the Non-Abolitionist majority did not).

The South saw him as proof of their suspicions that the Abolitionists were planning to arm the slaves for a revolutionary uprising.

After this, there could be no constructive dialogue between the two sections.

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