John Brown's Raid to Start Our Civil War

[Mitch86]

Tomorrow, October 16, is the anniversary of John Brown's raid on the Southern Confederacy. That raid kicked off the US Civil War over slavery. It's hard to believe but at that time our Southern states had the "peculiar institution" of SLAVERY. 6 million African blacks were imported by our southern states to be slaves of our cotton planters. Lots of Americans, North and South, died in that war and our then President, Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated because of what he did to free our slaves.

He raided the Harper Ferry armory.

 

[Warrigal]

Tell me more about John Brown. I only know his name from the song "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in his grave".

Ah, I see you have said that he raided the Harper Ferry armory. Thanks. I will look that up.

 

[Llynn]

He made the raid on Harper's Ferry hoping to steal arms stored there with the idea of iniating a massive slave revolt. When he was hanged, they made him sit on his coffin while a wagon transported him and his coffin to the gallows.

 

[dusty]

The Civil War was based on States Rights.