Luminesa wrote:Torrocca wrote:
You can't necessarily blame Brown for fighting during Bleeding Kansas when it was the pro-slavers who began the violence. It's not like he was the only one fighting there, in any case; it pretty much was the common person's fight during that time.
I doubt any of Spronson's actions were aimed toward harming innocent people, most particularly the people he was openly attempting to save.
Bleeding Kansas as a whole was a big part of what caused the Civil War in the first place. Frontier violence was no joke.
Yes, I know. But that's irrelevant to it being used as an example of John Brown not being a common person of the era when he absolutely was.
But anyway, the road to hell is often paved with good intentions, as they say. There were other ways he could have handled the issue.
Fair. Spronson could've probably found a way to free people from that corporate concentration camp without guns and molotovs.