John Brown
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- "This question is still to be settled" - John Brown on racism
- Things change such as textbooks, through racism and idealism. One thing still has not changed ........
- Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by Prs.Franklin Pierce to try to solve slavery through popular sovereignty
- Popular sovereignty is the federal territory settled themselves slave state or union free
- Northers Came quick for the free land of farming, while the southerns more so came with their slaves. "Border ruffians" raided the town of Lawrence . Burning down hotel and 2 printing presses.
- John Brown and his sons went out the night of May 24, 1856 killed 5 Pro-slavery men on a settlement on Pottawatomie creek, seen as a retaliation on this midnight attack
- Soon to be captured, after son died in his hands, and surrounded by militia
- Harper's Ferry October 16, 1859 John Brown and supports some of his sons, 18 captured citizens and federal armory in hopes of creating a revolution to destroy the slavery institution
- John Brown now seen as a hero for his efforts of anti-slavery, seen by some as reason for the civil war and abolitionist leader pre civil war
- After captured, John Brown was convicted of tried of murder, slave insurrection, treason against the state. Hanged on December 2, 1859 Virginia
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