Jerks in History

[Gene C]

(11-22-2013 09:25 AM)My Name Is Kate Wrote:  Self-righteous old John Brown practiced his own form of slavery with his twenty children from two wives, one of whom was just sixteen when he married her after his first wife died shortly after giving birth.

Not surprised, but I did't know that. Where did you read that?

I think for most people slavery was the real issue, although many of them did not have a strong enough feeling to go to war over it. Between Sumter & Brooks, who knows, probably both slavery & political attention, and the power that can come from it.