Pointless that John Brown was not a ‘legal representative of the people of the United States’. It was legal for a slaveowner to rape, murder and brutalize their ‘property’ of enslaved men, women, and children and someone needed to step forward for freedom and a right of wrongs. Are you really going to argue that the United States was at a fine place in law at that point? It was gross injustice of our Declaration of Independence and ‘all Men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’. It was a gross injustice against freedom.
You need to stop reading “uncle Tom’s Cabin”....
Most slaves were not brutalized.
And isn’t it funny that all of the civilized country’s ,Britain,Brazil Russia,Portugal ect manged to to free their slaves without the actions of blood swillng lunatics and rapple rousers