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An 8 page paper which examines Brown’s role in commencing the Civil War and whether his contemporary label as ‘the father of terrorism’ is an accurate one. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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martyrdom or despised for his fervent fanaticism (Chowder 68). Long before guns were fired on Fort Sumter, there was a war going on in the United States of America.
Who would have thought the march toward citizen equality would have been led by a neer well to do man in his late fifties? After the events of
September 11, 2001, there is an increasing chorus referring to John Brown as the father of (American) terrorism (Chowder 68). Ever the perpetual paradox, "Historians for many generations have
derided John Brown, a white man and a Northerner, as a meddling outsider, a self-appointed emancipator whose motives must be suspect because... he himself did not suffer from slaverys barbarism
and could therefore have no real interest in encouraging its overthrow" (Duberman 41). For those in the North, he had been transformed by history into "the Founding Fathers promise
of equality for all," but the slaveholders in the South bitterly condemned him as an evil fanatic, liar, and lunatic (Bailyn et al 637; Chowder 68). Somewhere between the
extremes was John Brown, and the activities that continue to define the man and his legacy. Although technically born in 1800, the John Brown of popular myth was actually born
many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvinist beliefs, he often joined his father in New England and later in Ohio to assist
in the emancipation of slaves (Madison 39). The young John Brown was not violent or militant in any sense. In fact, he had refused to join the armed
forces or to carry any type of firearm until the age of when he did so as protection of his property and his family that would grow to include twenty
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