Chapter Summary: After The Fact By John Brown

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Chapter seven of the book “After the Fact,” was a biography of John Brown. John Brown was a person who admire equality and the idea of abolition but did not generate a well-thought plan to be able to reach aspirations for America. John Brown was an American abolitionist who believed and advocated that armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States during the early to mid-1800’s. Harpers Ferry was the most famous plan from 1859 that made John Brown raids known. It all began when Brown met with Frederick Douglass in August of 1859 and when he explained his plan to a friend who shared the same goals of abolition and equality. His idea was to swipe the governments’ arms stockpile at Harpers Ferry

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