John Brown Quietist Analysis
The last essay that I studied was, “John Brown, Quietist” by W. Caleb McDaniel. Personally, this was my favorite of the essays to have read. McDaniel’s main argument in his essay was to prove the fact John Brown was not a quietest. Although he is called so by many, it is an extreme paradox, which is a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory. Throughout McDaniel’s essay he gives many examples from his and direct quotes in order to prove his reasonings. His first claim was the commonly used question, “Did a religious commitment to nonviolence amount to inaction? We learn that some of the abolitionists