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Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America

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Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America [1859]

A controversial abolitionist orchestrates violent attacks against slavery and single-handedly
changes the course of American history while blurring the line between activism and terrorism.

 

John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia

 

 

In 1812, he witnessed enslavement and beating of an African-American boy while travelling through Michigan. The incident haunted him for years.

 

"The negro boy (who was fully if not more than [my] equal) was badly clothed, poorly fed; and lodged in cold weather and beaten before [my] eyes with iron shovels or any other thing that came first to hand. This brought [me] to reflect on the wretched, hopeless condition, of fatherless and motherless slave children"

 

 

In 1837 after Elijah P. Lovejoy was murdered, John Brown vowed publicly to dedicate his life to end slavery.

 

“Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I say, let it be done.”     John Brown

 

 

He worked at the Underground Railroad as a conductor and formed an association of fugitive slaves and black freemen for self-protection. From 1849, he lived in North Elba, New York in a black community for two years.

 

After the Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850 instructing the free state authorities to aid return of fugitive slaves and levy fines on those who helped their escape, he formed a militant anti-slavery group aimed at preventing capture of slaves.

 

In 1855 he went to Kansas with his five sons after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed which empowered the citizens of the two territories to decide for or against slavery. While ardent abolitionists aimed at making the territory a free state when it enters the Union, many pro-slavery members moved to Kansas to secure the slavery system.

 

‘Pottawatomie massacre’.
 

On the night of May 24, 1856, the radical abolitionist John Brown, five of his sons, and three other associates murdered five proslavery men at three different cabins along the banks of Pottawatomie Creek

 

 On August 30, 1856 the ‘Battle of Osawatomie’ took place when John Brown and his 40 men fought with the ‘Border Ruffians’ led by John W. Reid. Earlier, the raiders shot his son Frederick. Though defeated, he became a hero in the eyes of many Northern abolitionists who nicknamed him as ‘Osawatomie Brown”

 

On October 16, 1859, he led an unsuccessful raid along with 21 men at the Harpers Ferry to seize weapons from the federal armory of the United States. After two days of combat, military forces headed by Robert E. Lee defeated the multi-racial group killing many including his two sons and captured him

 

 


 

 Following a quick trial he was convicted for murder and treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia and sentenced to death by hanging on November 2.

 

 

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The Legacy of John Brown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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