Summary
When John Brown raided Harper's Ferry 150 years ago this week, he hoped to spark a slave uprising that would spread across the South.
After the raid failed and Brown was speedily prosecuted and executed, many Northerners viewed President James Buchanan as "a tool of Southern slave interests," said John Quist, a professor of history at Shippensburg University.See the full content of this document
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Buchanan Viewed As Too Eager to Prosecute John Brown ; a Mile High and a Mile Wide
For his part, Buchanan later laid blame for the raid on Northern abolitionists and maintained that Brown had taken the country to the brink of war, Quist ...
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