John Brown

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John Brown, still recovering from a sword wound, stood trial at the Jefferson County Courthouse on October 26. Five days later, a jury found him guilty of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Judge Richard Parker sentenced Brown to death and he was hanged in Charles Town on December 2. Before walking to the scaffold, he noted the inevitability of a national civil war: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."
Northern abolitionists immediately used the executions as an example of the government's support of slavery.
I think that what John Brown did was very awesome. He stood up for what he believed, that slavery should be abolished, and did what he had to do to stop it. Even if it meant that he would lose his life. I also think that what he did was justified. He had a lot of reasonable support. Well not a lot, but he did have a crew of about twenty two men. He believed what was right ...

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