These men are all talk; What is needed is action, action! This essay is about the anti slavery activist named john brown who felt that the only way to end slavery was to kill all who opposed him. And john brown will even die for his cause. In this essay I will talk about john browns early life, his raid on Harpers Ferry, and his trial. So thank you and I hope you enjoy this essay. I personally think he was right in what he believed in but his methods were not favorable. So I do not agree with what he did.
John Brown was born May 9, 1800, in Torrington Conneticut. He was the fourth of the eight children. in 1805, the family moved to Hudson Ohio , where his father opened a tannery. Brown withdrew his membership from the Congregational church in the 1840s and never officially joined another church, but both he and his father Owen were fairly conventional evangelicals for the period with its focus on the pursuit of personal righteousness. Brown's personal religion is fairly well documented. FUN FACT Brown's father had as an apprentice Jesse R. Grant, father of future general and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. Later in his life he married twice having a total of 20 children. John also owned a few of his own buissnesses. He became a fervent abolitionist when he moved to Springfield Massachusetts. Later he began moving to Kansas where he then hacked to pieces five Proslavery men. This would later be known as the Powhattomie massacre.
On October 16, 1859, Brown (leaving three men behind as a rear guard) led 18 men in an attack on the Harpers Ferry Armoury. The armory was a large complex of buildings that contained 100,000 muskets and rifles, which Brown planned to seize and use to arm local slaves. They would then head south, drawing off more and more slaves from plantations, and fighting only in self-defense. As Frederick Douglass and Brown's family testified, his strategy was essentially to deplete Virginia of its slaves, causing the institution to...