John Brown Argumentative Essay
Would you go to extremes and kill an excessive amount of innocent people all because you thought you were right? This merciless, cruel man thought exactly that, John brown needs to be viewed in history as an terrorist who killed innocent people, as he did in the Pottawatomie massacre and Harpers Ferry. John brown took his beliefs to an extreme and brutally murdered anyone and everyone who believed differently than him. He was said to be a believer in god and that he was killing for God but his actions were not justified by the religion and bible. LAstly, the 1850s was a time of violence and disagreement, especially on the topic of slavery, but using this as an excuse to Joon Brown’s bloodthirsty acts of terror is wrong. John brown took his beliefs to an extreme and brutally murdered anyone and everyone who believed
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The 1850s was a time of disagreement especially on the topic of slavery, but using this as an excuse to commit JOhn Brown's bloodthirsty actions is wrong. Yes, people were violent, but John brown exceed violent. DOcument H explains how Harpers Ferry caused the disunion. If JOhn brown would have used more peaceful tactics slavery could have still been abolished. Looking at today's more recent history, Mandela, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. all acted with peaceful tactics, but still achieved their goal. Document K is a picture of a giant John Brown standing holding a gun and a paper in the middle of the northerns and southerns in war. This shows how he was in the middle of this all and caused the war to happen. He is also holding a gun, indicating he is all for war and killing. On another note, he is stepping on someone’s head on the right side, leading me to believe this was a southerner. That shows he very clearly took a side in this war. Connecting, JOhn Brown went to extremes even in a time of conflict which was wrong and no one else of this time did
The 1850s was a time of disagreement especially on the topic of slavery, but using this as an excuse to commit JOhn Brown's bloodthirsty actions is wrong. Yes, people were violent, but John brown exceed violent. DOcument H explains how Harpers Ferry caused the disunion. If JOhn brown would have used more peaceful tactics slavery could have still been abolished. Looking at today's more recent history, Mandela, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. all acted with peaceful tactics, but still achieved their goal. Document K is a picture of a giant John Brown standing holding a gun and a paper in the middle of the northerns and southerns in war. This shows how he was in the middle of this all and caused the war to happen. He is also holding a gun, indicating he is all for war and killing. On another note, he is stepping on someone’s head on the right side, leading me to believe this was a southerner. That shows he very clearly took a side in this war. Connecting, JOhn Brown went to extremes even in a time of conflict which was wrong and no one else of this time did