This was retribution for murders against abolitionists. Every act of violence John Brown did was a reaction to provocative violence from the slaveholding class.
Edit: not saying this to correct you, but to justify/defend his actions
Edit 2: Potawatamie is fun to say, I’m glad he killed people there so I get to say that word more often and because they deserved killing
:thonk: Well I’m convinced, chapo.chat should ban discussion of violence against slaveowners!
Brown concluded that violence justified violence
Yeah what of it
Holy fuck are they blaming Brown for the civil war? Really? And they lay the death toll at his feet? No considerations for how the alternative was to let slavery happen, instead we should weep over the people who benefitted from said slavery? Fuck this writer
The Problem with Looking For Lessons in the John Brown story is that his K:D ratio wasn’t high enough