John Brown, tired of waiting for everyone else to catch up, decides to end slavery himself, beginning at Harpers ferry(1856)
John Brown, tired of waiting for everyone else to catch up, decides to end slavery himself, beginning at Harpers ferry(1856)
Happy anniversary to raid at Harpers ferry, and the battle cry of hero John Brown!
“He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few, And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru; They hung him for a traitor, themselves the traitor crew, But his soul is marching on.”
William W. Patton
"John Brown wears a hangman’s noose for a necktie up in Heaven. I asked him about it and he said, ‘Where’s yours? Where’s yours?’
His eyes were glowing like coins."
-Kurt Vonnegut
Some people act to do what is right without concern for their own tragic ends.
And I sit here behind my device, worried that I might offend an internet stranger if I say something politically charged.