1. By Fady Makram and Mauricio de Vries
John Brown
By Fady Makram and Mauricio de Vries

2. Outline Who is John Brown? What happened at Harpers Ferry?
Why it got so much attention? (The Kansas Nebraska Act and The Dread Scott Decision)
How is it related to the Civil War?

3. Who is John Brown?
He was born into a deeply religious family in Torrington, Connecticut, on May 9,1800.
He was raised by a father who strongly opposed slavery.
At age 5 he moved to Ohio, a state known for its antislavery views.

5. He became interested in the abolitionist movement in 1835.
He gave land to fugitive slaves.
He and his wife agreed to raise a black child.
He participated in the Underground Railroad.
John Brown was hung for what he did at Harpers Ferry on December 2, 1859.

6. John Brown kissing a black baby in his last moments.

7. Primary source of John Brown’s address to the people before his Sentence of Death

8. Harpers Ferry (1859)
He led 21 men including 5 blacks in a raid on a federal armory and arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia
He hoped to start and arm a slave revolt
They captured
Half the raiders were killed and the rest, including Brown, were captured
Southerners cheered his death but the northerners saw him as martyr to the abolitionist cause

10. Statistics
60 men were taken hostages by John Brown and his men

11. John Brown holding hostage at Bay with a rifle

12. Kansas Nebraska act (1854)
Law that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
Allowed voters to decide whether or not to allow slavery
Renewed southern hopes of expanding slavery
Outraged anti-slavery Northerners

13. The Dread Scott Decision (1857)
The supreme court’s ruling that:
African Americans were not considered U.S. citizens
Congress did not have the right to ban slavery in federal territory.
Angered abolitionists:
Made them realize action must be taken

14. The Relations The Dread Scott Decision Harpers Ferry Raid
The Kansas/Nebraska Act
The US Civil War

15. Relation to Civil War
John Brown’s actions were a short term cause to the Civil War and effected America on a social and political level.
made abolitionists realize that diplomacy was not going to get rid of slavery
showed the southerners that the north was ready to use force on a much larger scale
increased political tensions between the two

16. Painting of John Brown

17. Primary source of a song written about John Brown

18. Conclusion
Events such as The Kansas/Nebraska act and The Dread Scott Decision led to the Harpers Ferry raid
Which in turn lead to the Civil War