I might respectfully beg to differ, here...John Brown, per the resource (and consistent with other accounts) was a staunch abolitionist, and the objective of the "raid" on Harper's Ferry was an attempt to instigate a slave rebellion.
I reserve the right to change my opinion, should my view be proven wrong.
If the Confederate Constitution effectively required states to allow slavery, how can one argue the Civil War was a fight for state's rights?
The South started it, that's one reason. That's also what they told non-elites of that day!
I might respectfully beg to differ, here...John Brown, per the resource (and consistent with other accounts) was a staunch abolitionist, and the objective of the "raid" on Harper's Ferry was an attempt to instigate a slave rebellion.
I reserve the right to change my opinion, should my view be proven wrong.
https://www.ushistory.org/us/32c.asp