Do you know John Brown ? The father of 20 children, born in 1800 into a family that believed that slavery was an offense against God, joined the colony of freed slaves from North Elba in upstate New York in 1848. He became friends with writer abolitionist Frederick Douglass .
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| John Brown, a defender of the abolitionist cause . |
few years later in 1859, he sets out to gather around him an army of slaves to bring down the Southern slave system. His coup in the armory of the village of Harpers Ferry, Virginia , leads to his loss, he was hanged on December 2, 1859 . But the myth was born, crossing the Atlantic and inspiring even the great Victor Hugo .
In a fascinating article, which takes us through the history of the United States in the early nineteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, Blot using the song "John Brown's Body" tells the story of John Brown and shows us how the ' slavery was the point of attachment of nerve tension between North and South who eventually plunge the country into civil war from 1861.
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