Explain Why John Brown Tried To Abolish Slavery

One of the reasons he tried to completely abolish slavery happened on November 7, 1837 in Alton, Illinois. On this day there was an angry pro- slavery mob in Alton. There was someone key to this first reason John Brown tried so hard to abolish slavery. Alton’s Observer editor Elijah P. Lovejoy who was also an abolitionist. Elijah held the first amendment to heart to every that said you can’t say that he would say i have freedom of speech. So, by doing this and him also speaking out against slavery because he was also an abolitionist he made a lot of people mad. So, consequently by him speaking out against slavery people saw him as a threat and on that day November 7th, 1837 he was shot and he died. Also that day and that same mob they burned