John Brown killed 50 gorillion people after eating up all the grain in Kansas with his big spoon 
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John Brown killed 50 gorillion people after eating up all the grain in Kansas with his big spoon
This guy is semi-notable on Twitter. He's best known for being kicked off a somewhat successful podcast for being a creep.
The ambient fear of a national slave revolt was one Confederate leadership was obsessed with, despite the fact that these slave rebellions were extremely rare and never successful. Harper's Ferry was a kind-of 9/11 of its era, because it brought the ahem Sum of All Fears to this sudden realization. And the fact that it fell flat practically overnight didn't matter. It set of a wave of Bad Vibes (by way of mass media) that rocked the Southern States by forcing leaders to acknowledge the degree to which their institution was openly reviled. The governors of the Dixie States revolted under the naive assumption that they could quench the flames of abolitionism by crushing the northern states in a military conflict.
Harper's Ferry became a rallying point for the Republican electoralists. And it likely helped mobilize support for Lincoln as a populist candidate by making the end of slavery look like a thing that was possible. But it didn't cause the Civil War, simply because it was one of the early dominoes to fall. It was merely a symptom of the disease that was slavery. In the same way that 9/11 was Blowback from half a century of American militarism and regime change in the Middle East.
The cause of the Civil War was slavery and all the events leading up to the war were also the result of slavery. It would be more accurate to say that slavery caused The Harper's Ferry Raid than that the Raid caused the War.
Obviously, they were supposed to earn their freedom by working so hard that slavery went away on its own.
"John Brown's body is rotting in the grave; his soul is marching on!"
People who try to claim the civil war wasn't about slavery are fools or liars. The Union Marching song directly stated that the union army was the sword of an angry god coming down on the slavers in the name of freedom.
-"As ye deal with my condemners, so with you My grace shall deal!
People will tell you to your face that the war was about secular economics or some shit. I'm sure the haute boug thought that, but the normal people who volunteered and marched south with guns and uniforms they bought with their own money were on a holy crusade against evil.
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I remember singing that song/hymn in church as a kid. Though I think the lyric was changed to "let us live to make men free".