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John Brown & the Raid on Harper’s Ferry

John Brown & the Raid on Harper’s Ferry.

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John Brown & the Raid on Harper’s Ferry

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  1. John Brown & the Raid on Harper’s Ferry

  2. A fourteen year-old suicide-bomber in Pakistan was captured after his explosives failed to detonate. He told police that he believed he would go to “paradise” if he completed his death mission at a shrine in central Pakistan, packed with thousands of people.

  3. Radicalism • What does it mean? • Departing from the usual or customary; extreme • Favoring drastic political, economic, or social changes

  4. Can you think of other examples revealed in today’s society?

  5. John Brown’s Background • Born in Connecticut • Family-slavery-hating Calvinists • At 5 yrs. old moved to Ohio’s western frontier

  6. 12 years old- cattle drive • Introduced to the horrors of slavery • Age 16, he devoted his life to bible’s teachings

  7. Married twice, fathered twenty children

  8. Brown's efforts to secure racial justice were numerous and diverse • Promoted schools • Underground railroad • Equality in church

  9. His Radicalism Evolved….. • Began to embrace violence as strategy for eliminating slavery • Admired Nat Turner, Cinque • Protested Nov. 1837 murder of editor, Elijah Love Joy

  10. Started formulating plans for slave insurrections

  11. Slaughter of proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie, Kansas on May 24, 1856 • Arrests warrants issued

  12. Drafted his utopian “Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States” • December 20, 1858 rode to Verona County, Missouri • Forcibly liberated twelve slaves

  13. “Talk, Talk, Talk, that will never free the slaves. What we need is action-action” • Spring of 1859,New England Anti-Slavery Societymeeting

  14. Attack on harper’s ferry • Federal arsenal • 200,000 weapons stored in US armory • Brown's plan • Arm freed slaves in the vicinity • Mount raids to free more slaves

  15. October 16 • Wires cut, bridges taken without bloodshed

  16. Seized night watchmen and arsenal

  17. Negative response by freed slaves

  18. Militia began moving in

  19. October 17 • Brown, his men, and eleven hostages held up in fire-engine house

  20. Marines commanded by Colonel Robert E. Lee arrived at Harper's Ferry • Brown and 4 surviving men taken prisoner

  21. Brown was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death by hanging

  22. Brown’s legacy • Hero or villain? • Actions led to Civil War

  23. Fishbowl Debate: • You will be placed in small groups (3-4) • You must each take a role (recorder, speaker, time keeper, task manager) • I will assign your group a position (follower or oppositionist) • Your group must formulate a rationale why your side is right and the other flawed (15 minutes)

  24. GooD luck!!!!!

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