Why Was John Brown Considered A Protagonist?

John Brown was brought into this world by his parents who were Owen Brown (father) and Ruth Mills Brown (mother) in Torrington, Connecticut on May 4, 1800. His father, Owen Brown, made a living with making leather from skin off of animals as a tanner while his mother died in his childhood.
Early in his childhood his parents instilled in him religious backgrounds and views on slavery. At around 12 years old, Brown witnessed the wrongful abuse of an African American boy. Seeing this made Brown view slavery as wrongful and unfair treatment because of skin color. Because of this John Brown has been quoted to say that he proclaim an “eternal way on slavery” or the concept of slavery. While his mindset or feeling that slavery must go was in the right place, the way he went about trying to get rid of slavery because of his action was wrong. In his opinion he thought that bloodshed was the only way for slavery to died/be over with. For these 2 reasons is why some people consider John Brown as a protagonist and others consider him as a antagonist.
John Brown did several things to portray this image of himself. He killed sons and their fathers while in Kansas because according to him they lived in the South even though they were not slave owners. He also sold their livestock at local markets. He may have thought that doing this would have cause the slaves in the South to revolt or rebel but the exact opposite happened as they did not but instead they were killed. Plus when he attempted to raid Harper’s Ferry in order to get a slave rebellion with