Why John Brown Really Happened?

" ...you can now appreciate my distress in Kansas, when you then and there entered my house at midnight and arrested my husband and two boys, and took them out of the yard and in cold blood shot them dead in my hearing. You can't say you done it to free slaves." A quote by Mahala Doyle from letter she sent to John Brown when he was sentenced to be hanged. So why was he sentenced? Because he committed treason, murder, and child abuse. John Brown did not improve conditions in the United States. Let's start at the beginning of his story. When he was younger he was walking through the word he witnessed and 12 year old slave boy being beaten by a hot shovel. On that day he promised not not own a slave. Later in his life he would give his kids
In a firefight they killed a few townsmen, including the mayor. At one point Brown stopped a passenger train, held it for a while, and then released it. The train continued on to Washington, D.C., where the crew dutifully reported to officials that Brown had seized Harpers Ferry." A section from Paul Finkelman's "John Brown: America's first terrorist?" These facts prove that John Brown hurt innocent people and held them against their will. He also didn't care when his soldiers got hurt or died because he only cared about his cause and not who he hurt or killed. He also killed a free black man who he supposedly was fighting for. John Brown didn't care about other people, he was a con who wanted what he wanted and would do anything for it. Including killing innocent people. The people that he killed could have done amazing things but he had to take the life out of them for his own greed and pleasure, proving that John was America's first
As Paul Finkelman states, "Brown's small army arrived in Harpers Ferry at night and quickly secured the federal armory and arsenal and later Hall's Rifle Works, which manufactured weapons for the national government. With the telegraph wires cut, Brown might have easily seized the weapons in the town, liberated slaves in the neighborhood, and then taken to the hills. Or he might have destroyed the armory and literally blown up the town." And he also states, "Most Southerners, however, saw Virginia's actions as a properly swift response to the unspeakable acts of a dangerous man whose goal was to destroy their entire society." Thus proving that he was a dangerous man who held the lives of so many people in his hand when he took over federal property. With a few minutes to set everything off John could have killed a whole entire society. Did I also mention that the first man he killed that night was a free black man? Well that young man's name was Hayward Shepherd. Hayward was the baggage handler on a train and all he was trying to do was stop John from making a bad decision. To make it harder for anyone to catch John he had all the accesses, including rivers, roads, and mailing, cut off so the whole town was unable to reach help. I would also like to add the fact that his raid freed no slaves, which makes you wonder why he made the raid