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= ﻿ John Brown's Raid  = =﻿ =

The year John Brown was born was May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut and the year he died was December 2, 1859 in Charles Town, West Virginia. John Brown’s Raid took place in Kansas. John Brown’s Raid took place during 1857 to 1858. The events that were leading to John Brown’s Raid was he confessed because he had made a building catch on fire, collected a number of young men, and put the young men under military instruction. The people who were involved in John Brown’s Raid were 50 black people and 60 white people. What the people did was they had to everything John Brown wanted them to do and they were slaves also. How John Brown’s Raid effected slavery was it made people’s lives harder. The John Brown’s Raid didn’t stop slavery because he put most people to work and he captured people. A quote that Fredrick Douglass said about John Brown’s Raid was “though a white gentleman, as in sympathy a black man, and as deeply interested in our cause, as though his own soul had been pierced with the iron of slavery.” What I think this quote means is it’s saying that even if you are black or white you will still get the same discipline.