An Analysis Of John Brown's Raid

John Brown said before being hung,“(I) Never intended murder, treason, or destruction of property or the excite or incite the slave to rebellion or make insurrection.” During 1857, John Brown, an abolitionist, was raising money to help abolish slavery in the South, also to get an uprising of the slaves and to create a rebellion.The main plan of the raid was to get the slaves to join his rebellion, but it failed as a raid. Even though it failed as a raid it created a greater divide between the North and South. The last words of Brown were given to a guard before his hanging and those words were, “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” As John Brown hinted at bloodshed was spread in the form of a Civil War. The John Brown’s Raid was the main cause of sectionalism between the North and the South before the Civil War. A detailed storyline of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry is needed in order to understand the sectionalism between the North and the South. The John Brown’s Raid sparked the war due to the fact that it created a great deal of sectionalism between the North and the South. The raid lasted for 36 hours and the consequences of the raid lasted longer than …show more content…
During his campaign, Lincoln mentioned the John Brown’s Raid in the Cooper Union Address. This address helped Lincoln become President during the 1860. Lincoln did like some of the ideas of Brown but not all of them. He believed that slavery was wrong just like Brown did. One thing that Lincoln did not support was the fact that violence will end slavery. Lincoln believed that we should have settled the slavery controvercy with peace and no violence. Instead of peace we ended up having to settle it with a war, The Civil War. When Lincoln was elected, all of his votes were from the North, none of his votes were from the