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David Reynolds reassesses the legacy of John Brown, who was hanged for his role in the October 1859 raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry. Reynolds states that Brown did not live on the fringe of American life, but was at the very center of it. A devout Calvinist possessing unshakable integrity and faith in the righteousness of his violent actions against slavery, Brown was the only abolitionist in the years before the Civil War to live among blacks, advocate a rewritten constitution that would make slaves citizens, and ultimately to take up arms and give his life for the abolitionist cause.
Directions: Listen to podcast, take notes, and then respond to the following prompt. Click on link below, Gilder Lehrman site, scroll to John Brown Podcast.
Prompt: Was John Brown an extremist or a principled freedom fighter? Did his actions speed the advent of the Civil War?
John Brown Podcast
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