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Essay on John brown as charismatic leader
John Brown also famous as Old Brown of Osawatomie was an American abolitionist, whose effort to end slavery by force deeply increased nervousness between North and South in the time before the American Civil War. Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut. His family moved to Ohio when he was five years old. Early in life he acquired the detestation of slavery that manifests his ensuing career, his father having been actively hostile to the institution. At the same time as living in Pennsylvania in 1834, Brown initiated a project among concerned abolitionists to educate young blacks.
The next 20 years of his life were mostly dedicated to this and comparable abolitionist ventures, entailing a lot of sacrifices for himself and his large family. In 1855 he followed five of his sons to Kansas Territory, then a center of resist between the antislavery moreover proslavery forces. Under Brown's control, his sons became active participants in the fight against proslavery terrorists from Missouri, whose activities led to the murder of a number of abolitionists at Lawrence, Kansas. Brown and his sons avenged this felony, on May 24, 1856, at Pottawatomie Creek by killing five proslavery adherents. This step, as well as his victory in withstanding a large party of attacking Missourians at Osawatomie in August, made him nationwide prominent as an incompatible antagonist of slavery. (Cullick, Jonathan S)
Brown manipulated the past documentation so as to create himself. Brown's existence and discovers their untrustworthiness for his own study. The concept of creating himself as a martyr would not occur to him until years later, at his trial. The major responsibility that Brown constructed for himself was that of liberator: Brown would be a sort of Moses or Christ, freeing slaves from their bodily repression and the American South from its spiritual repression....
