Questions About John Brown

[Eva Elisabeth]

Kate, even if the slaves had somehow (how???) freed themselves, how should they have made it to make freedom constitutional? In the end I think there was no silver bullet to end slavery at that point in time, v.v., enlarging the system into the territories would have worsened the outlook for the enslaved, delaying freedom into a farther away future. Waiting for Godot (never to come) would have certainly not been the silver bullet, nor John Brown-like private guerilla warfare. I don't think Lincoln had any stances against the south others than that he didn't approve of slavery (which is most understandable IMO).