Questions About John Brown

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Maybe they could have begun with not defining Blacks as only a fraction of human, in the first place. But the North wanted it set in stone that way in the Constitution. And the timing of the Harpers Ferry raid so close to the election and War, prevented the Federal government under Pres Buchanan from aggressively going after all the financial supporters of John Brown to a strong completion. If the good folk in Mass and CT and Penn had seen their Disunion schemes unraveling under a Federal prosecution, maybe then they would have been first to secede?