Choosing Violence – John Brown #2 – Extra History Reaction



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20 thoughts on “Choosing Violence – John Brown #2 – Extra History Reaction”

  1. Have you had a chance to look at A P Hill confederate warrior by History gone wilder. Very good measure of the man. Like to hear your thoughts. Heads up though, its 3 hours long.

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  2. Pragmatism is sociopolitical structures provides a relatively weak foundation for social justice and change. Hence why most successful political figures have historically leaned toward stronger political philosophies. Also, entire USA is founded by slavery and imperialism.

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  3. I’ve never heard of John Brown before now. Very interesting character. Gives me a Malcom X impression, does evil things in the name of something noble. Something awful pushed him to the extreme. I don’t believe the ends justify the means in any case, but I understand it. And change comes real slowly without people like him so.

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  4. I think the existence of serfs dulled the impact of slavery in Europe. Why go through all the hassle of buying a slave when your fiefdom comes with a bunch of built-in almost-slaves?
    When enlightenment came along, this made it easier to expand the rights of the serfs, since they were full citizens (on paper at least).
    On the other hand, the black slaves in the US were barely considered human, which made it easy to ignore them when people proclaimed "all men are created equal".

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  5. The story of Solomon Northrop is a great example of southerners coming into the free states and taking a free black man to sell into slavery. And I, as a south Georgia resident, have a huge problem and get very angry when I read or watch his story because so many went through the same hell that he did and most never made probably never made it back to freedom. Absolutely appalling.

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  6. Yeah, on the one hand, you can sit back and write essays about how something needs to change, and nothing will happen. But it's also possible to be too impatient and try to make things happen faster than is actually possible, and you just burn yourself out, unnecessarily, without accomplishing your goals.

    Lincoln is a special case; his relationship with the institution of slavery is really too complex to cover in a YouTube comment; but I will say that a lot of people like to over-simplify it. It is also worth noting that Lincoln was concerned that if the issue caused the United States to break apart, then the whole world might collectively dismiss the concept of representative government as a failure and go back to authoritarianism, and then all of the world's peoples would effectively be slaves, except for a few elites. That concern was perhaps overblown, but it did make more sense in the 1860s, than it would make today.

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  7. John Brown was one of History's Arsonists (if my favorite history fan Dan Carlin has anything to say about him.) Was he a hero to the abolition movement? Yes. How did the families of his victims feel about him? I think we know the answer to that.

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  8. umm. considering Britian decided to cause famines in India for stuff like this the whole stopping slavery is more they have outer avenues for reckless wealth generation and stuff. and well. if you call it a different name.

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  9. Slavery, in Great Britain, was only done away with because the government agreed to reimburse British enslavers for their loss of property. The debt incurred by this payment was only fully paid off in 2005 (I think that's the date) and the formerly enslaved were not reimbursed for their work or hardship.

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