Essays on John Brown

In its support of the slavery system, the government of the United States utilized the law. In other words, the federal government either passed legislations to thwart any threats made against the institution of slavery or persecuted individuals for failing to adhere to the same. A perfect illustration of the given claims revolves around the actions of political leaders and the States’ harsh responses to calls for liberation during the Antebellum Era. In Howard Zinn’s words, the government allowed whites to use “the laws, courts, [and] armed forces” to restrict persons of African descent to the lowest class ...

Information is readily available today on every computer. Back in my day, we waited for the newspaper or nightly new to find out the latest information; yet it seems that many students use the computers for other purposes; sports, gossip, email, music, etc. I find that many students are not very aware of political situations in the world or here in the US. Why do you suspect this is, do you agree with me or not? I do agree that students are not taking advantage of the instant access to the news around the world that is available today. ...

Sentiment was boiling with respect to the issue of slavery. There was a delicate balance in Congress----eleven Free states and eleven slave states. Missouri wants to join the union as a slave state, a challenge to the fragile equilibrium of the political era. Henry Clay helps to provide the answer with the Missouri Compromise. It simply stated that Missouri would join the union as a slave state, while Maine would detach from Massachusetts as a free state (Etcheson 1). Furthermore, slavery would be outlawed in lands north of the southern border of Missouri, except of course, Missouri (Etcheson 1). ...

Introduction

Martin Luther King Jr., Henry David Thoreau, and Malcolm X assisted in shaping the current American society that is made of the blacks and whites. For Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, they seemed to be preaching two opposing sides of politics of the blacks. Martin called upon nonviolent ways of resisting the white domination while Malcolm insisted on any available means that were necessary for bringing the liberation to the black community. As a result, Malcolm has always been misrepresented as ‘black Klu Klux Klan’ that was a group which consisted of racial extremists. Henry David Thoreau, on ...

In his article “The Madness of John Brown”, the author, Robert E. McGlone, discusses the mental state of J. Brown, who is known for his failed raid on Harpers Ferry. Brown’s raid was an attempt to launch a war against slavery. It ended early in the morning on October 18, 1859. The author mentions that Brown was wounded and his squad was very little: a squad of Marines overwhelmed it. The trial lasted 6 days, and after that he was sentenced to hang. However, his raid had a great impact on society. Brown accepted his sentence with words: ” ...

Question 1

It is true that the question of labor made the Civil War unavoidable in the United States in the early 19th century. The oppressive and discriminative labor policies created tension that prompted the emergence of Civil War. In essence, the early 19th century Civil War may be viewed as the struggle against slavery. The North and South adopted conflicting ideologies in respect to the labor. The North embraced the ideology of free labor while the South propagated the concept of slave labor. In this context, the South struggled much to maintain slavery, which essentially led to eruption of conflicts ...

Based on the movie and the letters it is evident that John Brown was an abolitionist who asserted that violent is the best way to overthrow slavery system. John Brown personally viewed abolition as a platform to achieve what slaves wanted. There was a need to act in order to end slavery. Through his personal efforts, John Brown created a platform to end slavery in America. Through his efforts, he believed that slavery was a bad practice, and it should be destroyed. In fact, he was part of abolition meeting and was much dedicated to destroying all institutions of slavery. John Brown planned ...

The American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, was fought between North and South United States. The main cause of the Civil War was the disagreement over slavery, which is evident through the analysis of multiple documents of the time. These documents display the ways that slavery divided the country at this time, drawing a very distinguished line through the country. The North supported abolitionism and wanted an end to the slave trade, and they participated in helping many slaves escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad. The South formed the Confederacy, a union of all of the states ...

John Brown was hailed and equally condemned by Americans when he lived. The White American abolitionist, who valiantly took arms to free the Black Americans from slavery and commanded forces in the 1856 conflicts in Kansas to kill slavery supporters, though found guilty and hanged to death on 2 December 1859, inspired the beginning of the civil war a year later to free the Black Americans. Plain, simple and not much educated, to the core Brown was a human being and opposed discrimination on the basis of skin color. He was an ordinary human being who believed that the Negros deserved ...

(Insert Instructor) (Insert Course) (Insert Date) Horwitz, Tony. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. 2012. Years before the American Civil War (1861-1865), African Americans were considered property to the whites as per the slavery institution present at the time. Slavery in the northern states was however not the same as that in the southern states as the latter was vast with cotton plantations that depended on the free labor availed by black slaves. Therefore, the difference solely lay in the economic functions of the two states with the north ...

The term Bleeding Kansas culminated from the violence that occurred from mid to late 1850’s. The violence began in 1854, after the introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (History par 1). The act came to overturn the use of latitude as a boundary by the Missouri Compromise. The boundary separated the slave and free territory but people felt that the area should be a free state. However, other residents felt that it should remain as a slave state. As the arguments continued, more proslavery people as well as free-state settlers came to Kansas to join in the movement. In a short period, the ...

Afro-American History to 1877

“The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics” is a well written book by James Oakes. James Oakes in his book suggests that both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas fought slavery and stood up for the causes of slaves but they had different ways of fighting against slavery. The author presents thorough details of their working and ideas in his book. Oakes recognizes both of these leaders as reformers but portrays both of these leaders in different perspectives. This paper intends to discuss contributions of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas and how their ...

BOOK REVIEW: DIVIDED HOUSES BY CATHERINE CLINTON AND NINA SILBER

Summary Divided Houses focuses on the effects of gender, race and class on the Civil War. During the Civil War, which happened at a time when patriarchy is prevalent throughout the United States (US), women stand as those belonging to a so-called “separate sphere,” yet such only includes white women. Black women, on the other hand, stand as perhaps the most disadvantaged beings during the Civil War, particularly because their subordination lies on the compounding of the doubly negative effects of their gender (female) and race (African-American). In exploring such a dynamic feature of women during the Civil War, Clinton and ...

Many movies touch the cinema screen every year but there are few movies, which are successful to leave a benchmark in the hearts of people. One such movie is ‘John Brown’s holy war’. The movie revolves around a single person namely John Brown who started a campaign against slavery of black people at the age of fifty and was martyred in the cause. John brown is still remembered in the American History but as the first terrorist of the nation. The movie is narrated by Joe Morton and produced by Rocky Collins. In ninety minutes duration of the movie, the ...

Christopher Columbus and Leif Ericsson

Every year on October 12, inhabitants of the Americas celebrate one of the greatest event in history – the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. Norseman Leif Ericsson was the one who with at least 35 men on boat hit the beach of America five hundred years prior to Christopher Columbus. The connection is the Americas, its discovery.

Benjamin Franklin and Richard Saunders

Benjamin Franklin and Richard Saunders relate to one person – one of the founding fathers of the United States of America – Benjamin Franklin. The connection is the “Poor Richard's Almanac” published between 1732 and 1758.

Mary Dyer and Richard Nixon

Mary Dyer, English Puritan, who joined the Quakers, ...

THESIS:

- INTRODUCTION - Hisirian’s perspectives of the civil war. - David Muzzey’s perspective - John Anderson’s perspective - DIVERGING VIEWS OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH - Slavery - Abraham Lincoln election - The political landscape - SESSECION ISSUE - Effects of John Brown’s raid - Polarized factions - Economic perspective to slavery - CONCLUSION - REFERENCES

Historians have had their different views as to why and how important events happened in history. Such is the mystery surrounds the whole issue of the ...

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Paper Outline Thesis statement - The Compromise of 1850 - Texas becomes a Southern State and the Mexican War ends. - Popular sovereignty is approved by Congress. - Slavery is the major cause of tension between the two sides. - Abolitionists begin war against slavery. - The Fugitive Slave Act angers the Northern states. - Abolitionists use the “Underground Railroad” to help slaves escape. - The release of Uncle Tom’s Cabin causes more tension between the two regions. - Congress approves ...

Susan B. Anthony was one of America’s greatest reformers, organizer for woman suffrage. One of her unique talents was her ability to unify women and motivate them to work relentlessly for a particular goal. She was able to develop strong teamwork which endured through numerous disappointments and downfalls. It has been suggested that she was gifted with an undaunted valor, fortitude and spirit of personal sacrifice which were essential in her singular work than in any other ever assumed (Harper 605). Susan B. Anthony will always be considered the commander-in-chief of the freedom of women because she dedicated her entire ...

Pilgrims came to America with hope to obtain freedom. Religious freedom, freedom from Monarch. But slavery was brought to this continent much more earlier than the refugees of “Mayflower”. In fact, story begins with Christopher Columbus with his expedition trip from Spain to America, when he brought five Jewish slaves on board with him. First American slaves appeared in San Miguel de Gualdape colony in 1526, but the system based on race slavery was fully developed only in 18th century. From that moment, slavery became an inseparable part in American economy. The territory of US grew sharply after the ...

Unlike many Novels, Uncle Tom Novel played a major role in worldview of slaves and slavery while others went un- advertised. A few of these reviews limited themselves to defending the south from what appeared as Stowe's unfair attacks triggering war and the end of slavery. It also played key role in shaping American’s literature as it had a big influence on several writers. The novel high lightened the plight of slaves, slavery and the laws set against those aided slave’s run-away, crusader of anti-slavery and advocacy of slave rights. The book draws Tom as a black slave whose is ...

Often termed as father of American Terrorism, John Brown was a very disputable figure. While some regarded him a saint and a revolutionary, others were not charitable enough when they called him a ‘murderer’, a ‘terrorist’ or a ‘zealot’. He was thought to be a martyr and a hero by the abolitionists and a madman by those who were pro-slavery. The spinning of John Brown is still on with no clear definition of who he was. He draws comparisons to anarchists, leftist revolutionaries, and right-wing extremists (Chowder 2000), but his personality doesn’t fit under any of these categories. John Brown was born into a deeply religious family ...

William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois: A Biography

William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868. He was born and grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His parents were Alfred and Mary Silvina Du Bois. Her mother’s family lived among the small, free black community in Great Barrington. Her mother descended from English, African, and Dutch ancestors. William’s paternal great-grandfather was a French-American named James Du Bois who fathered different offspring with some slave mistresses. Alexander was one of the many mixed-race sons of James. When Alexander went to ...

Bleeding Kansas refers to the hostilities that broke out in the Kansas Territory in the 1850’s during the lead-up to its admission as a state. Up to that point, a delicate balance had been struck in the senate between free states and slave states, giving the two sides roughly equal power and preventing any truly drastic measures to be taken by either side. This was highlighted by the Missouri Compromise of 1850, only a few years before, which had two parts: 1) Missouri was admitted as a slave state, while Maine was admitted at the same time to counteract this and retain ...

One of the most contentious subjects in post-colonial America in the 1800s was slavery. It was well known that the South relied heavily on slave labor to maintain its cotton-based economy; at the same time, the social conditions and squalor slaves were forced to live in were unbearable, and slave accounts were gaining more and more notoriety (Dew, 2001). The election of Abraham Lincoln was the final nail in the coffin for a secure Union, as the threat of abolition from Lincoln was what led the South to finally secede. The agricultural restrictions and changes, as well as the tariffs, ...

John Brown was an exceptional American citizen who fought for what he believed in. Brown’s believes were based on the declaration of independence, which is against slavery, since it guarantees all men the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Brown also added that slavery broke up families, denied worker the right to enjoy the fruits of their labor, and the slaves a chance to rise above their status in life. Based on his beliefs against slavery, Brown committed himself to the use of violence for the liberation of slaves in Kansas City in 1856, whereby Brown ...

The root causes of the Civil War can be traced back to the foundation of the country. When the Constitution was written, there were some men that wanted slavery to be banned at that point, but other representatives stated that they would refuse to sign the document if that provision was included. Therefore, the entire topic was just avoided in the document. The differences between the North and South continued to create a great divide, and the rift grew through the mid-1800s. The economic and social differences between the North and South were great, and the disparity grew as the ...

I am a big fan of history, and I very much enjoy learning about the history of American conflict, particularly the Civil War. To that end, one of the most powerful and influential figures to me is John Brown. Brown was one of the most influential figures in American Civil War history; a famed abolitionist, he led the Pottawatomie Massacre and raided Harper's Ferry, without success. Being an important white figure in the abolition movement, he has proven an important person to study when contemplating the Civil War and the fight to free the slaves. In his trial and execution, Brown ...

Life Span Development and Personality

Harriet Tubman was a remarkable woman that led the black slaves to freedom during the early and middle part of 1880s through the Underground Railroad. She was born Araminta Hariet Ross, census records cannot determine the correct month of her birth. However, reports indicate that her birth is between February to March of 1822. Tubman was born in an African-American slave family. She is a humanitarian, an abolitionist and a Union spy during the time of the Civil War. Tubman made 13 trips to the South in a mission to rescue more than 70 slaves using networks of anti-slavery groups including safe houses ...

John Brown: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?

Introduction: John Brown is seen as pretty much something of an enigma today due to the fact that he was perhaps one of those who was very much against slavery but armed blacks in what could be seen as an insurrection to violence to do so. Earle’s book focuses with intriguing detail on the raid on Harper’s Ferry with a number of original documents and sources which create an interesting and largely factual picture of what went on during that raid. One perhaps may not agree with the methods used by Brown as they are often compared ...

Book Review

James W. Loewen is a history teacher. He has also written a textbook and his skills as a researcher are high, many notes supplement his text. His book Lies My Teacher Told Me is a history book that includes historical facts that have not been included in regular school textbooks. Loewen has a very friendly way of writing that makes a person want to continue to read the book from the beginning to the end. He takes historical topics that are very familiar and explains how the reality of the history is different than what has been taught as history. He discusses the research he ...

John Brown was one of the most influential figures in American Civil War history; a famed abolitionist, he led the Pottawatomie Massacre and raided Harper's Ferry, without success. Being an important white figure in the abolition movement, he has proven an important person to study when contemplating the Civil War and the fight to free the slaves. In his trial and execution, Brown turned out to be an incredibly important martyr to the cause of abolition. Merril Peterson's biography John Brown: The Legend Revisited "is an extended meditation on the life of John Brown and his place in American thought ...

Introduction

America has experienced a series of violence throughout her history. There are two types of propagators of violence in America. The propagators include the government which suppresses and oppresses the citizens that it should take care of. Whenever activists came into the open to oppose the oppression, the government executed them. Another group that propagated violence are the activists who could organize for massacre in order for the government to act. John Brown saw it wiser to kill all the slaves than see them suffer in the poor living conditions of poverty.

American character in this sense means the way ...