John Brown (1800-1859) was an American abolitionist who advocated using violence to end slavery. He fought in "Bleeding Kansas" and attempted to incite a slave rebellion in Harpers Ferry, for which he was tried for treason and hanged.
I...am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood.
Nothing so charms the American people as personal bravery.
Slavery...is...the most barbarous, unprovoked and unjustifiable war of one portion of its citizens against another portion.
[I believe] I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
