Memoirs and biographies are mostly used to evaluate Brown’s significance. One of the sources used in the essay, To Purge This Land with Blood by Stephen B. Oates, is used to evaluate the origin, purpose, values and limitations. B. Evidence Before Harper’s Ferry, there was a pro-slavery raid on Lawrence, Kansas (also known as Pottawatomie Massacre or Bleeding Kansas) because of the violence against the abolitionists and pro-slavery acts. The proslavery forces were burning towns and murdered a free-state settler named Thomas Barber.1 This led to a disagreement over the land, until James Henry Lane and Charles Robinson drew up a peace treaty and had the free-state men in full possession of the Territory.
Thus, Southern Slavery was a system of exploitation, but not to the extent which many abolitionists claim. Slavery in Southern America varied vastly between different masters. Some slaves were put through very harsh and demeaning experiences, such as the description of a slave named Francis Henderson in the book ‘A North-Side View of Slavery’. Francis was said to witness his master physically abusing his family right before his eyes. “I have known him to kick my aunt, an old woman who had raised the nursed him, and I have seen him punish my sisters awfully with hickories from the woods.” However, slavery in Southern America was usually patriarchal in character contrary to common belief; quite a big portion of slaves were regarded and considered to be part of the family to which they belonged.
Burch told Northup that if he were to tell his true story to another person, he would be killed. When he asserted his status as a free man, Burch beat him violently; Northup finally stopped protesting. Northup was transported with other slaves to New Orleans, Louisiana by ship, where he and other enslaved blacks contracted smallpox and some died. He asked a sympathetic sailor to get a message to his family, which the man did, but they did not know how to find him in Louisiana. Northup was sold by Burch's partner in New Orleans to a planter on a bayou of the Red River, and had several different owners during his 12 years as a slave in Louisiana.
Devon Williams September, 2013 2013FA-HIST-1301-81008 Was John Brown A Hero or A Murderer? John Brown was a radical American abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of the slavery system and orchestrated the infamous (and unsuccessful) 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry federal arsenal which resulted in his capture and sentencing to death by hanging that same year. Historians agree that Brown’s actions greatly contributed to the start of the civil war and his raid further revealed the division between the North and South. He is often recognized as “America’s first domestic Terrorist”. Brown was born in 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut to an extremely religious and abolitionist family where he first began forming his anti-slavery views.
The final image of Sutpen given by Rosa is that some black man kills him on his plantation. Rosa also asks Quentin to come with her to the old Sutpen mansion, because she thinks someone is hiding out there. Continuing with his stream of consciousness technique, Faulkner has Mr. Compson tell the next few chapters through his memories of Thomas Sutpen. Sutpen was in the Cival War with General Compson, and as the stories have been passed down to Mr. Compson, he is passing the story now to Quentin. In Mr. Copsons version, I learned of Sutpens marriage disaster, his immediate family,his illegitimate child with a slave, and a previous marriage to a woman who was 1/8 black, who bears Sutpen a son, which is his dream, but also his downfall.
It was very hard to look at and see all the cruelty and things that went on with the slaves after they had been captured, due to the fact they had been minding their own business a significant amount of years and then someone comes along, suggest that Africans are not to be treated inhuman and turned into a slave. Finally once had reached to their destination, slaves would be auctioned off. I learned from this movie that slaves fought back. They realized what was going on with their lives and took control of that. I was not aware that they actually went to court and was faced with murder, didn’t know that this happened.
Meanwhile, Pinkerton was in opposition to slavery he additionally made his shop purposes as a station for slave’s that were hiding for the reason that they had fled through the Underground Railroads (Bio. 2010). During which they gathered materials for his business on a close by island, Pinkerton came across a gang of counter fitters. He teamed up alongside the local sheriff and as he watched where the gang’s hideout was, which then led the sheriff to the custody of the counterfeit gang. In light of this and comparable achievement, the people appointed Pinkerton the deputy sheriff of Kane County in 1846, as well as shortly after he turned out to be the deputy sheriff of nearby Cook County in Chicago.
He lived in the Currumpaw valley in New Mexico. Many call him the king of it. During the 1890's, Lobo and his pack, were killing the settlers’ livestock. The ranchers tried to kill Lobo and his pack by trying to poison them. They also tried to kill them by using traps and by hunting parties, but these attempts failed.
Another cause of the civil war was the actions of John Brown, who attacked on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to seize the weapons and help the slaves revolt, but it didn’t work (Doc 6). When violence broke out in Kansas’s territory over slavery, Charles Sumner gave a speech on the “crime against Kansas”. Preston brooks, took it upon himself to defend his colleagues and beat Sumner with a cane (Doc.8). If America was not faced with these problems that I have mentioned in the paragraphs above we might not of had a Civil War.
Soon federal congressional men came to Kansas to decide the dispute. The Pro-Slavery government was chosen for the second time. Soon, many attacks came through Kansas, a particularly famous one being the John Brown attack. John Brown, along with some of his friends, killed five pro-slavery men in Kansas that became known as the Pottawatomie Massacre. Kansas soon collapsed into civil war, which got it the name, “Bleeding Kansas.” Things also heated up on congress.