The Secret Six and John Brown

[recumbentgoat]

Dr. Samuel Gridley HoweBoston physician Samuel Howe joined his wife, Julia Ward Howe (famous for her Battle Hymn of the Republic, based on the tune about "the body of John Brown lies a-moulderin' in the grave") in championing social reforms from better treatment for the disabled to the abolition of slavery. Howe disapproved of Brown's raid of

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Cool!

[i_dreamed_i_was]

This is awesome. When someone comes to me with all that "Robert E. Lee didn't really want to defend slavery" stuff, I'll just point 'em here.

Re: Cool!

[recumbentgoat]

I'm really tired of all the apologist 'S/he was a product of their times.' Puh-leez.

There were plenty of white people who didn't drink the kool-aid, let alone buy it. But we don't exactly celebrate them...

And plenty of poor whites rose up with slaves and free blacks too...especially during colonial/Revolutionary times.