“Fight with fire and strike terror in the heart of the proslavery people” (“UShistory” 1). This inspired John Brown and his followers. John Brown grew up with a father that passionately disagreed with the idea of slavery. As Brown grew older he became a radical abolitionist. He lead the Pottawatomie Creek massacre and the raid at Harpers Ferry. None of these were successful in ending slavery. However, Brown’s death had the greatest impact. Although John Brown and Nat Turner lived two very different beginnings, they ran parallel lives.
John Brown acted like any other kid growing up but, grew up to be a well known radical abolitionist. He was born on May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut. Because Brown’s father was strongly against slavery,
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Brown’s goal was to abolish slavery. His plan for the raid at Harpers Ferry was to arm the slaves with weapons to help kill the slave owners. He wanted to establish a base at Blue Ridge Mountain with him and his army. From there they would assist the runaway slave, give slaves their weapons, and launch attacks on slaveholders. They were prepared to attack in 1859 but postponed the raid for the next year. One of his followers had threatened to reveal his plan, and he did. From their the rest of the group had to go into hiding. The summer following that nightmare Brown rented a farm across from the Potomac river. Once he was settled in he waited for his army to arrive. Many men decided not to be apart of the raid because they felt the plan wouldn’t work or they moved away. Brown had to quickly recruit new men to help successfully carry out the plan. Before the raid Brown met with Douglass one last time and he said, “You’re walking into a perfect steel trap, and you’ll never get out alive” (WGBH Education Foundation 3). At night, Brown set out with his 22 army and crossed the Potomac river in the pouring rain. They didn’t reach town until four a.m. First Brown and his men captured the federal army and arsenal. Next they captured Hall’s works. Brown’s small army rounded up 60 citizens and held them hostage. Brown was hoping that the slaves would come and help but their never did. …show more content…
John Brown was born in May and grew living a white lifestyle. However, Turner was born in October and grew up as a slave. This lead them to have different reasons why they became an abolitionist. Turner hated slavery and didn’t feel that anyone should have to go through it. Brown grew up with a family of abolitionist and followed his dad’s footsteps. Brown and Turner both had a raid in Virginia but, John’s was in 1859 and Nat’s was in 1831. They are similar because they both had a certain plan for their attack to kill slave owners. The difference between their raids is that Brown’s was the raid at Harpers Ferry and Turner raided in Southampton, known as Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion. During the raid at Harpers Ferry Brown led 21 fighters to fight. On the other hand Turner only led 6 slaves. Another thing that they have in common is that both raids failed and they were both captured. Brown was captured by US Marines while Turner was captured Phipps, a farmer. Like one and another they were both hanged. Adding to be hanged Turner was skinned and turned into purses. John Brown and Nat Turney lived different lives growing up but in the end they lived almost identical
In his life, Brown have made contact with many popular person who also share his beliefs about slavery, from Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Henry David Thoreau. He also is successfully gain financial support from partisans in the North. The author show Brown’s History though his tough time, the way he did to promote Abolitionist movement while dealing with the economy growth of Southern. Brown’s military strategy seems to be not existent.
In the conclusion of his works, Oates asserts that to many African-Americans, Nathaniel Turner is a heroic figure. Speaking of African-Americans, Oates writes, “.... Nathaniel Turner’s rebellion is regarded as the ‘First War’ against slavery and the Civil War as the second. So in death Nathaniel Turner achieved a kind of victory that renounced him in life, he became a martyred soldier of slave liberation who broke his chains and murdered whites because slavery had murdered Negroes...” I do perceive that Oates supports this perspective in his account.
His father, Owen Brown, who was “a committed pacifist”, was passionately opposed to slavery, which heavily influenced John Brown to become an abolitionist (Horwitz, 2011, p.19). John Brown is described as “a warrior at heart”, who was focused on the task to “undermine slavery (Horwitz, 2011, p.19, 31). This obsession to terminate slavery was his inspiration throughout all the skirmishes he fought in and slaves he helped free. The most infamous battle was his raid on Harper’s Ferry, where he was captured, trialed, and later hung. This battle is believed to be a major
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.
Douglass and Lincoln were both raised and fated to be righteous men, when both had already come across obstacles through their own lives. Lincoln and Douglass were equivalents, even though they were far diverse men. Otherwise, both their lives grew in hardship, the independent men came to realize their lives are ideal (Oakes 90). Douglass and Lincoln both had strong perspective on labor morals and that people should gain the aids of their labor. In addition, both (Douglass and Lincoln) had beliefs that slavery was the world’s wrongdoing and should permanently diminished.
Kelly Baltazar History 17A Mon. & Wed. 10:00-11:15 A.M. Radical And The Republican Paper Abraham Lincoln is known as the republican while Fredrick Douglass is known as the radical, both of these men kept their distance from each other although Abraham Lincoln (the president) and Fredrick Douglass (a runaway slave) knew who each other were, it took them a long time for them to get together and work on the slavery problem together. Douglass just had one issue though, he didn't really trust Lincoln and thought that it had took Lincoln too long to proclaim emancipation. Both men came up up a lot, both men are important historical figures and what many people tend to want to know is why?
John Brown fought slave owners to free slaves. He saw the wrong in the slave world. Brown had believed he was doing the right thing to do. For his actions, Brown had been hung with pleasure knowing he had a good impact on the slave world. He had tried very hard to free the slaves.
After the American Revolution, slavery grew into a coherent, national system. The new nation accepted and supported its presence. The Constitution explained how the federal government was to be set up and operate, but the protection of health, safety, and morals were left up to the individual states to decide. Each state was to draft its own constitution, in which it could decide whether it wanted to allow slavery within its its borders. Various abolitionists prepared editorials in hopes of bringing the issue of slavery to the forefront of public discourse.
Brown grew up in a house that didn’t like people having slaves and was very religious. So every decision’s he made he didn’t regret because he was doing it for god or for the slaves. Everything he did he believed it was a mission from god.
Nat Turner was the leader of a violent slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831. Some people believe that Turner was a leader and a hero while some people think that he was a villain who got many people killed. “I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams - and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.” Turner thought that he had a vision and he had to get justice for all the slaves that worked hard for the slave owners. Nat Turner was an important figure in american history because he led the only sustained slave
Nat Turner and John Brown are both noted, as being symbols of American reform. Leaders of abolitionist groups, who went on a killing spree believing they were given “extraordinary powers from above” and were executed for their strong beliefs of anti-slavery. Their gruesome murders could easily attract followers and spark interest in others to write their biographies. John Brown and Nat turner both came from strong religious backgrounds.
In October 1859, the U.S. military arms stockpile at Harper 's Ferry was the objective of a strike by a furnished band of abolitionists drove by John Brown (1800-59).The attack was planned to be the first stage in an involved arrangement to build up an autonomous fortification of liberated slaves in the mountains of Maryland and Virginia. Brown was caught amid the attack and later sentenced conspiracy and hanged, however the strike kindled white Southern reasons for alarm of slave uprisings and expanded the mounting strain in the middle of Northern and Southern states before the American Civil War (1861-65). John Brown was Conceived in Connecticut in 1800 and brought up in Ohio, John Brown originated from a staunch Calvinist and abolitionist
He himself also had a burning hatred of slavery, he showed this by helping some slaves escape in to free land using the Underground Railroad, providing schooling for them, and he also risked his life to free them. Most people considered Brown a man that was a “symbol of his time” because of the heroic actions he made to try and free the slaves. While aiding the slaves with schooling and the Underground Railroad, Brown and his family faced serious debt problems and family fatalities. Between
Two Great Men “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. ”- Thomas a. Edison Frederick Douglas and Booker T. Washington were both amazing civil rights activists. Frederick Douglas was a runaway slave who worked to end slavery.
The Underground Railroad" and "Frederick Douglass" can be seen as similar texts becuase of the author's purpose of wirting that both authors give. Both author's purpose is to inform the reader about the struggles and hardowrk that slaves had to go through in order to get freedom. The author in "Ferdrick Douglass" shows the hardwork and stuggle that Douglass had to face in order to get his freedom. " , Douglass taught himself to read and write in secret by reading newspapers and pamphlets. " This shows the Douglass had to do a lot of hardwork to be able to read and write becuase it is hard to learn read and write with only knowing the alfabelet.