Brown was a murdering butchering terrorist who practiced his terrorism in Kansas, not a slave state. He drug slavery sympathisers from their homes in the dead of the night and disembowled them in front of their wives and children. He did it because "God was whispering in his ear" These were not slave holders he did this to, but common people who thought slavery was ok.
You keep wanting to turn this discussion to slavery when my remarks have been about John Brown and how he operated. I get it- slavery bad, now you need to get it, terrorism bad too even when you believe God is telling you to gut people while their children watch.
No, they were active members of an organization pushing the border ruffians to their violent and malicious tactics to murder, intimidate, beat, threaten and cheat in elections, burning abolitionist Lawrence down, and the list could go on, but those were leading activists in that slavery movement. Abolitionists were the more passive movement and Brown wanted to show the slavery sect that they would have a dose of their own kind. I can understand the circumstances and the time and see where John Brown was coming from. And slavery was the issue.