HY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Southern Democrats, Anaconda Plan
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4/20/17- from secession to civil war, 1859-1861: john brown"s raid. Choosing sides and sizing things up: descent into war, 1861. Abolitionist and believed slavery was a violation of god"s law. Wanted to provoke a slave uprising that would overthrow the state governments in the south: harpers ferry, virginia. Where he wanted to start the slave uprising and raid the armory and gun factory. Was overall a very unplanned raid, and was relatively unsuccessful as there went many enslaved people. In the end 10 of brown"s people died. What was significant about this raid was the way that people reacted when it was over. Brown wanted to go to his grave as a man of principle and talked to the press. Cast himself as a supporter for anti-slavery and christian martyr. Republicans and democrats both denounced the raid and attempted to blame each other.