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MannyGoldstein (21,913 posts) Are you glad that John Brown was hanged? [View all]Last edited Fri Jun 28, 2013, 11:50 PM USA/ET - Edit history (2) In 1859, Brown attempted to start an anti-slavery rebellion in the South. The attempt was unsuccessful. Some pro-slavers were killed. Brown was executed. But his actions played an important role in starting the Civil War, which brought about the end of slavery. Brown commited a crime to help end a horrible institution. Would you have cheered his punishment?
leftstreet (22,312 posts) 1. Blast from the past: when Republicans wanted to end slaveryBrown was a pivotal figure, the forgotten 'father' of sorts of the Civil Rights Movement I'm never glad when anyone is killed Yet his execution had a powerful influence on citizens
MannyGoldstein (21,913 posts) 2. I fear that in the 1859 version of DU, manywould be screaming for Brown's head on a platter and refusing to acknowledge the evil of slavery - because it was legal.
cherokeeprogressive (15,436 posts) 3. Never happened Bro, never happened.LOL
Zorra (19,209 posts) 72. That's a given. They would have pleaded with King George to save them from those wascally webelsJefferson, Madison, Franklin, Washington, and the rest of the crew, and moved to Canada in despair after the wascally webel lawbreakers won our Independence from England. "Filthy lawbreakers and miscreants, the lot of them was, guvnuh. Traitors to the bloody crown. Hang 'em all I says." The calculated de-emphasis on teaching history and literature in schools since Reagan appointed Bill Bennett Secretary of Education has been an astounding success for the authoritarian RW agenda. Many Childs Left Behind is working.
Arctic Dave (12,731 posts) 10. Long live the Confederacy!!Those slaves had it good with their free room and board.
MotherPetrie (2,195 posts) 11. No. I'm opposed to capital punishment.
backscatter712 (20,635 posts) 15. Not to mention that the attempt to recruit slaves into the rebellion......would have deprived good Christian plantation owners of valuable property!
HardTimes99 (457 posts) 51. EPIC FAIL! Manny has illuminated the distinctionb between 'legal' and'moral' and done so with a clearness of vision that is usally lacking in American polticial discourse. I wish his question would ****ing go viral or whatever it is the kids say these days when a framing takes over the national conversation. BTW, the question was whether YOU would have been glad Brown was hanged, not what your ancestors and forbears might have thought. YOU!!!
Checking into Ancestery.co, I found a Yankee officer related to my Hubby's family that road until the horse died of exertion to get the help John Brown needed at Harpers Ferry. Too late he got there for help. I wonder if anyone in Hubby's family would even think to do the same today.
leftstreet (22,312 posts)1. Blast from the past: when Republicans wanted to end slaveryBrown was a pivotal figure, the forgotten 'father' of sorts of the Civil Rights MovementI'm never glad when anyone is killed Yet his execution had a powerful influence on citizens
MotherPetrie (2,195 posts)11. No. I'm opposed to capital punishment.
Robert E. Lee was the officer in charge of putting down Brown's little revolution. He was a Colonel in the Army. The US Army.
If I remember right, he was leading US MARINES against Brown at Harpers Ferry.
I found a Yankee officer related to my Hubby's family that road until the horse died of exertion to get the help John Brown needed at Harpers Ferry.
The Yankee army arrested and hanged John Brown, who was a deranged murderer.Every time someone quotes DUmmy vestanumbers I appreciate "ignore" a little more.
in 2009 the Democrat party fully supported slavery. If DU had been around at that time anyone who stood against slavery would have been banned. Group think rules supreme at DU, as does the rat party.
John Brown wasn't deranged, he was just ahead of his time.
He was a crazed abolitionist who murdered innocent people to make a political point.Not much different from a muzzie bomber.