The government wasn’t so noble allowing the brutal institution of slavery and so it is my opinion Brown acted in ways to confront intimidation of abolitionists and to bring about the war that came. It was a form of terrorism if you will, but I do tend to think Brown a key to ending it finally
Brown and his sons dragged men out of their homes in the middle of the night and murdered them in cold blood. The Pottawatomie massacre. With the later Harper’s Ferry raid he was attempting to ignite a slaughter like what had happened on Haiti.
I’m curious to know what you think of Geo Washington, seeing as he was one of the largest slaveowners of his time. Or of the Revolution, since London announced two emancipation decrees during the war- had the Crown prevailed slavery would have ended by 1783.