How Did Benjamin Sanborn End Slavery

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was two years old when he was struck by a bolt of lightning at his family’s old farmhouse in Hampton Fall, New Hampshire. He tries to make something stir in the world. Sanborn talents were making a stir by “unfailing genius when it came to provoking others” (Fuller pg. 43). Even though, he caused trouble a writer named Ralph W. Emerson moved Sanborn with his book of essays. The essays “suggest the world’s possibilities, assuring him that reliance upon one’s inner principles” (Fuller pg. 44) to make a mark in history. Sanborn response to the essay was to take action and in 1851, attending Harvard, he decided to become a writer. In the beginning, he wrote articles about worshipful friendship. Before long, Alcott and
Sanborn contributed to help end slavery by volunteering for the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee. He helped out with “financial aid and contraband weapons to freedom fighter” (Fuller pg. 45). Gerrit Smith, an abolitionist of slavery, introduced Sanborn to John Brown, a man who fought in Kansas. John Brown believed in God and that he summoned by God to demolish slavery. Slavery was the practice of inhumane act in the nation and Brown was going to challenge and attack slavery. His plan was to assemble fighter to attack on the armory on October 16,1859. The plan was not successful and led him and his ten fighters to death. John Brown told Sanborn directly, he needs “money to purchase rifles, pistols, and cutlasses” (Fuller pg. 46). Sanborn did not know at the time that Brown was a part of Pottawatomie Creek “where Brown and his men hacked five men to death with broadswords” (Fuller 46). Brown had drawn up a constitution for the government to create a new freed South that he read aloud to Sanborn and Smith. During that time Sanborn played devil’s advocate and questioned Brown’s plan. Afterward, Sanborn and Smith agreed the plan had little success, however they respect Brown and his