Brown was a murderer & basically psychotic, dying for a just cause; his example continues to challenge us to think hard about the use of revolutionary violence in a democratic, constitutional republic. His raid helped end slavery, but only by pushing the US further to civil war.https://twitter.com/MarkDever/status/1201524245215531009 …
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All in response to similar massacres by pro-slavery forces.
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They still used broadswords to hack up people. Which I’d think would cause long term mental issue even compared to someone just shooting someone. There’s just a different level of violence when it’s so primitive like that.
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I think the only thing we can agree upon was that he was dangerous. (Another for the curious: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/harpers-ferry-john-brown-frederick-douglass/ …)
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