"I...am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done."
- John Brown.
He stood there frozen for a few minutes, that's how long the exposure time was before they discovered/invented materials that are more sensitive to light... and then of course, found ways to mass-produce them. Maybe he stood there five minutes?
Gotta wonder how his day was going before tidying up and being asked to stand there like a statue while staring straight at the box in front of him, and how it went after that. In that environment so familiar yet still utterly alien to our eyes. What did he have for dinner that evening. How were the restaurants and bars of the era?
It was a world of steam power but that predated electricity, except maybe for the telegraph, transmitting its' mysteriously instantaneous messages in Morse code wherever the country-spanning wires were laid out, and no further. A world where horses were as abundant as cars are today. A world whose nighttime was lit by candlelight and oil-lamp.
Yes and he chose a particularly challenging pose to hold for a Daguerreotype! Many subjects back then preferred to sit in a very relaxed pose and they even used a small stand to hold the subject’s head still!
Damn he only lived 1 year. Must have had super Jack disease.
#JohnBrownDidNothingWrong
Looking like Abe Lincoln without the beard.
An armed and fighting anti-slaver, gave his life for the cause.
Modern liberals: "Give up your guns!"
No. Hard no.
Here it come, bring it:
"LOL, you'll die fighting you pathetic loser!"
Yeah. Might work out that way. Probably will if they come for me, much prefer dying with my boots on thank you very much. But I'm not laying down a coward, begging the cops to spare my life.
Think on this my gun grabbing friends; What if the local cops or feds thought they were walking into your home might be Ruby Ridge II Bugaloo? FFS, so many of us being armed is the only reason the fascists haven't overrun us yet.
Apologies to my white, suburban brothers, did I break your concentration?
Uh, I mean, John Brown wasn't exactly fighting his war with legal guns, so the modern context of liberals being in favor of gun control isn't all that applicable. "Beecher's Bibles" were illegally shipped into Bleeding Kansas, John Brown butchered a few slavers with a broadsword (very metal), and his most prominent action involved raiding a government armory in order to get guns.
Think on this my gun grabbing friends; What if the local cops or feds thought they were walking into your home might be Ruby Ridge II Bugaloo?
Not sure that defending a white nationalist twat is really the left take you want here.
