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To: rockrr

Ok convince me John Brown was a Democrat. LOL.


228 posted on 01/13/2019 8:24:16 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: central_va

Why would I do that? You’re the one playing with strawmen - and illustrating your paucity of understanding.

In truth John brown was a radical extremist - much like you. He had no time for political affiliation and he was critical of Lincoln because he knew that Lincoln would try to find some common ground with the south. If anything Brown was utterly impatient with accommodationists. Brown was a supporter of John Quincy Adams who was of the Democratic-Republican Party, which was nominally more to the right of the Democrat party, which was led by Andrew Jackson.

You are aware that just being an abolitionist didn’t automatically make one a Republican - or even a northerner, right? Although there weren’t nearly as many southern abolitionists as there were northern abolitionists they did exist and they were active in the south.

A partial list of southern abolitionists:

Moncure Conway
Reverend John Rankin
James Birney (freed slaves)
Levi Coffin
Charles Osborn
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Hinton Helper
John G. Fee
Reverend James Gilliland
Alexander Campbell (freed slaves)
Thomas McCague
Revered Jesse Lockhart
Colonel James Poage (freed slaves)
William Dunlop (freed slaves)
William Williamson (freed slaves)
Rev George Bourne
John Fairchild
James Thome
Arthur Thome (freed slaves)
William T Allan
John van Zandt


231 posted on 01/13/2019 8:57:26 AM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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