Questions About John Brown

[KLarson]

I am confused - you wrote "I said that the only chance of slavery ending without a civil war, was if the slaves themselves, with the help of sympathetic free people, attempt to make a bid for their own freedom." How were 4 million enslaved people supposed to make a bid for freedom?

On another point, you seem to be quite determined to be disrespectful yourself. I suggest you read some good, award winning history books about the founding of our nation until the outbreak of the Civil War. I am not sure where you are getting your information, but it isn't from any well regarded histories of the period. Secondly, there were four million enslaved people in the south in 1860. Who was supposed to represent them? Their masters? Hardly. I can assure you that those 4 million people were better off after the Civil War - they had the right to marry, vote, go to school, keep their children, go to church, earn their own money and keep it.

Lincoln did not destroy the United States of America. Those southerners who seceded from the United State and fired those shots at a federal installation attempted to destroy our country in order to keep people enslaved and to profit from their unpaid labor. This is not blaming all the southerners, it is historical fact.