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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But another interesting twist. John Wilkes Booth joined a group of Virginia volunteers on their way to ensure that no one rescued Brown from the scaffold. So he was a witness to Brown's death.
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