Questions About John Brown

[Eva Elisabeth]

Ok, Kate, I worded it poorly - I try better: the way that you think may have been the right idea about how to free the slaves except for not advocating murder except in self-defense.

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Re.: "I 'expected free sympathetic people to aid" the slaves? I did no such thing." - I was referring to this:

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. Of course they could not do it all on their own.

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As for the rest - I was trying to understand the reasoning in your previous post which seemed to me that a) a/the situation resulting from an imperfect handling/acting in the past the presence is unchangeable, and b) I didn't understand why not to apply today the ideas you approved of that might have been the better way - or, in other words, it would make more sense to me to make up ideas as for how to better today's situation instead of only criticizing the imperfections of the past. It makes no sense without drawing consequences IMO.