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Yes, much more honorable to act on taxes than truly enslaving another human being and murdering, raping, beating them and separating their families, etc. etc. People died over independence over taxes and you say it wasn’t right for a movement within a country to work to abolish true slavery?? Just because something is state sanctioned does not make it right and the United States was wrong to allow slavery to continue for so long.

The top three issues with your post:

1) Opposition to John Brown's terrorist methodology does not indicate a support for slavery. Stop acting like it automatically does...because to do so is not intellectually honest.
2) Show me where I said that "it wasn't right for a movement within a country to work to abolish slavery"? You can't because I didn't say it. Stop doing that, it is not intellectually honest.
3) You cannot justify evil actuins in response to other evils. There were many who did not resort to evil acts and who behaved honorably in the same quest to end slavery.

You do realize the American Revolution was a movement by a minority against their own country, don’t you? And over taxes which they considered ‘slavery’! I am not saying you supported slavery, but I will say with someone like you slavery and the suffering would have continued on for many more yrs. to come. And as for ‘evil actions’, like I say, the only way there ever is FREEDOM is because of BLOODSHED. It is a necessary evil and I believe Brown brought the issue to a much sooner conclusion with his actions.