Questions About John Brown

[My Name Is Kate]

I am getting my information almost exclusively from this forum. I do no outside reading at all, except for one book by Wild Bill (a member of this forum) and I cannot even remember the name of it. After I read it, thoroughly, I immediately sold it to try to get my money back (not that I thought it was an unworthy book at all). I do my own thinking and I make every effort to base my thinking on facts.

If, after all the explaining I've tried to do in this thread, you (and others...) still do not understand that I am saying, IMO, based on what you yourself wrote in your first posts in this thread, John Brown had the right idea for ending slavery, minus his encouragement of the slaves to kill (except in self-defense), I just can't help you. No way am I saying that the slaves were to make a bid for freedom without anyone's help. You can't understand that? Then don't understand it.

From everything I've observed about black people living in this country today, (and as I've said in another thread, I lived for twenty years in poor, unsafe, unfriendly neighborhoods), many if not most of them, do not think they have anything close to the freedom and opportunity they "should" have. They are not happy. Why not, if the Civil War was so beneficial to them? BTW, I live up north, not in the south.