John Brown (1800-1859) was an American radical abolitionist. He fought in "Bleeding Kansas," attempted to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, and was then tried for treason and hanged.
I...am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood.
Nothing so charms the American people as personal bravery.
Slavery...is...the most barbarous, unprovoked and unjustifiable war of one portion of its citizens against another portion.
[I believe] I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
