Long Term Effects Of The Civil War

On October 16, 1859, John Brown lead twenty-one men, made up of both white and black men, to attack a federal armory at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. Brown’s plan was to steal weapons to give to freed slaves nearby and then return back to the mountains to do more raids to free more slaves. To do this, Brown and his men stopped man trains and took over many bridges to stop all people from coming in and stopping them. After this, Brown’ men got to the federal armory and took the weapons and captured hostages. John Brown thought that if the story got out about the weapons he stole, slaves would rebel against their slave owners and run away to meet him to join the fight.

John Brown was an abolitionist who was a part of the anti-slavery movement. He led the Harpers Ferry Raid in hopes to ignite a spark in slave uprisings. Brown was not insane for his plans of raiding and supplying slaves with guns from the arsenal. The plan for the raid was not a spontaneous attack.

John Brown’s Raid was the effort by John Brown to initiate a slave revolt, and his first objective was to arm slaves by trying to take over the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry. John Brown and twenty other men who joined him, including three of his sons and about fourteen African-Americans, went into the town of Harpers Ferry. Brown split up the group into the two, this proved to be the biggest mistake of the whole operation, with one group going to capture Colonel Lewis Washington along with other hostages. The main group, led by John Brown, intercepted a train in hope that slaves in the next town would hear about the rebellion and join it, but no slaves heard about it. After intercepting the train, the group went on to seize the armory in Harpers Ferry.

The mission of this small group led by John Brown was simple, form a rebellion against slavery using acts of terrorism. In 1859 21 of John Brown’s followers led an attack on Harper’s Ferry the biggest federal arsenal in what is now known as West Virginia. There he killed many men infront of their children and wives. Word spread out how he was raiding Harper’s ferry and U.S. marines showed up and overan Brown’s men killing 10 of his men including two of his sons, and also freeing the hostages they were holding

John Brown shows his violence in multiple raids for example, in John Brown’s Violent Rebellion t-chart where it states, “In 1859, John Brown, with 18 to 20 other people, attack the armory at Harpers Ferry”(John Brown T chart). John Brown chose to take a violent and aggressive manner of handling his viewpoint of slavery. When he attacks Harpers Ferry he had the plan of acquiring more weapons for him and his group in order to advance in the fight against slavery. His violence led to the death of many who did believe in slavery as well as the death of many who were opposed as they would go out and risk their lives to end slavery. John Brown gave others against slavery the power and will to take action and fight against the act of slavery as his and his sons’ bravery proved be one of the major points of injustice that led to the gruesome Civil War and

Tensions were high during the few years before the Civil War broke out in 1861, and there were many abolitionists during this time. One of the most well-known abolitionists was John Brown, who led a raid on Harpers Ferry armory on October 16th, 1859. The attack on the armory caused the citizens in America to take up sides in the fight against slavery. The biggest question about this raid is what caused John Brown to risk everything by attacking a federal armory? John Brown, was a man that opposed slavery with every chance he got.

According to the document “John Brown- A Radical Murderer” it states that “ Most northern anti-slavery groups did not agree with John Brown's raid. [...] It was started by Northern abolitionists. It was an act that forced Southern state legislatures to pass emergency action.” So then the South needed to prepare for fights in the future with the Northerns. Also, William Lloyd Garrison was a leader for anti-slavery movement but called the Harpers raid a “misguided” and “insane” act.

Brown led a small group of around 20 men on a journey to Virginia where they seized the federal armory and arsenal and gave guns to the slaves. He hoped that the slaves would join in on this rebellion to destroy the practice of slavery. Unfortunately, the slaves had no idea what was going on since there was no communication. Robert E. Lee arrived at the house and discovered Brown, who was taking shelter. (“John Brown’s Harpers Ferry Raid”).

John Brown was an American abolitionist who was very religious. He fought for the freedom of slaves which he believed can only happen by using violence. He was considered a hero in the North and a terrorist in the South. He attacked 5 defenseless men and dismembered their bodies just as you would butcher cattle. On October 16, 1859, he led a rebellion with 21 men – 5 blacks and 16 whites – against Virginia slavery, he attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry but he was hurt and then captured, trailed, and before he was hanged on December 2, 1859 he stated, “… if it be 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

John Brown was a fervent abolitionist who dedicated his life to the cause of ending slavery in the United States. He was involved in several violent confrontations with pro-slavery forces in the territories of Kansas and Missouri, where he earned the nickname “Osawatomie Brown” for his bravery and ruthlessness. He is best known for his daring raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, where he intended to seize weapons and ammunition and distribute them to enslaved people in the South. He hoped to ignite a massive slave revolt that would overthrow the slave system and create a new republic of free people. However, his plan failed, as he was quickly surrounded by local militia and federal troops, led by Colonel Robert E. Lee.

By the time he got to his 50's, he saw that slavery was not going to end peacefully. This led to an obsession with the idea of serving justice to black people and slaves. John Brown figured that the only way for it to end was for him to go and use force on white slave owners, which consisted of him killing them or hurting them and forcing them to give up their slaves. During this obsession with anti slavery, Brown planned a slave uprising at Harper's Ferry. John Brown started plotting to raid the town of Harper's Ferry and seize guns from the federal armory.

John Brown was an abolitionist that saw it as his duty to be a spokesperson as well as a fighter on the forefront in abolishing slavery. In his time, he took into his own hands to physically make a change for the sake of freeing slaves. On October 16, 1859, John Brown led eighteen men in a raid to capture a federal arsenal located in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. This arsenal contained rifles, muskets, and pistol, which he intended to give to slaves to provoke and lead an armed slave rebellion. During this raid Brown thought slaves would join his eighteen men to help them conquer the arsenal and to then start their rebellion, since he planned this to help the salves, but no slaves came to help Brown and his men.

John Brown a religious terrorist During the 1850s, the tension between the North and the South started to escalate. Slavery among other issues were creating sectionalism. John Brown’s attack on Harper’s Ferry in 1859 shocked the nation and changed how Americans view abolitionists. In American history, john brown is described as a martyr and hero who fought for the freedom of slaves until his execution.

He saw groups of abolitionists go against people that were pro-slavery and it ended in a violent battle that was started by the pro-slavery side. This made him cautious but he didn’t yet want to start being violent unless someone else went after him. This quickly changed and he knew that the only way to prove his point was to engage in violent acts like the others. One of these acts involved John Brown going to Rochester and meeting with a man named “Frederick Douglass. His purpose was to enlist the famous black abolitionist's support for his plan to invade the slave South and wage a guerilla war from a base in the Appalachian Mountains” (Earle, John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry; May 8, 1858).

There were three main causes of the civil war including slavery, sectionalism and secession. Slavery was a huge part of it and it led to the Missouri Compromise where any states below the border would be slave states and the anything north of that was free states. (Mrs. Wise) "The south feared the declaration of freedom for the slaves by government leaders in the North." Next, sectionalism. Sectionalism-