John Brown’s Last Speech Performed by David Strathairn

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@greysongaming0845
@greysongaming0845 4 жыл бұрын
"They hanged him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew!"
@SinclairLocke
@SinclairLocke 3 жыл бұрын
sus
@user-ly7fc9zh3y
@user-ly7fc9zh3y 3 жыл бұрын
Yet his soul goes marching on!
@Masonjar94
@Masonjar94 Жыл бұрын
“As he died to make men holy, John Brown died to set men free”
@60weHoodsta
@60weHoodsta 5 жыл бұрын
So why the hell have we not got a freaking 3 hour movie about this man.... WTF.... Spike Lee, Tarantino.... Someone. Make this happen
@telemachyscores849
@telemachyscores849 4 жыл бұрын
www.sho.com/the-good-lord-bird
@jacobingram8152
@jacobingram8152 4 жыл бұрын
@@telemachyscores849 Wow! Is it out yet, if it is, is it good?
@gemerson6119
@gemerson6119 4 жыл бұрын
@@telemachyscores849 Ethan Hawke?
@beastmodebailey8083
@beastmodebailey8083 4 жыл бұрын
UK why brother, lol....🤦🏽‍♀️✊🏿❤💪🏾
@60weHoodsta
@60weHoodsta 4 жыл бұрын
@@telemachyscores849 Holy shit. Thanks
@pitman4121
@pitman4121 3 жыл бұрын
John Brown is probably the greatest American to date (Living or dead). When someone like Frederick Douglass or Harriet Tubman describe him in the following words, you know without a doubt he was a true patriot. “Henry (John) loved liberty for the rich and the great. Brown loved liberty for the poor and the weak.” “His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine - it was as the burning sun to my taper light - mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him.” Frederick Douglass, 30 May 1881 “He done more in dying, than 100 men would in living.” Harriet Tubman
@iand4374
@iand4374 2 жыл бұрын
He was great. I wish he was able to take out more pro-slavers and die a free and healthy old man
@casssmith2610
@casssmith2610 2 жыл бұрын
Harriet was supposed to bring him 3000 ppl to help at HF. That’s who he was waiting for. I wish she’d have made it.
@althesmith
@althesmith 2 жыл бұрын
Thaddeus Stevens certainly comes close.
@scorpioninpink
@scorpioninpink Жыл бұрын
​@@casssmith2610 She was bed ridden that day because she caught a fever
@Baphomets_Kid
@Baphomets_Kid Жыл бұрын
Goddamn.
@myyoutube62
@myyoutube62 4 жыл бұрын
A reminder that "John Brown was insane" and "John Brown was a bloodthirsty psychopath" are both examples of Lost Cause revisionism that have seeped into 'common knowledge'. In his time, he was regarded as perfectly sane (at worst, he was considered a zealot (in the textbook sense e.g. someone completely, unwaveringly devoted to a cause) and somewhat egotistical due to, for example, his firm belief that God wanted him to lay down his life to free those held in slavery) and was widely regarded as very kind and decent to everyone but slave owners and those who defended slavery. Tubman called him "the greatest white man who ever lived" and said he did more for the slaves than even Lincoln did. Douglass called him "a brave and glorious old man" and said "History has no better illustration of pure, disinterested benevolence." Julia Ward Howe (who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic to the tune of John Brown's Body) compared his death to end slavery to Jesus's crucifixion. Doesn't sound like a crazy, bloodthirsty maniac to me!
@timthompson9246
@timthompson9246 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly! Thank you!
@chairmanoftheboard11
@chairmanoftheboard11 3 жыл бұрын
John Brown was the GOAT
@timothyblackburn2830
@timothyblackburn2830 3 жыл бұрын
John Brown is burning in Hell for all Eternity!
@chairmanoftheboard11
@chairmanoftheboard11 3 жыл бұрын
@@timothyblackburn2830 No Jefferson Davis is burning in drag.
@bobsemple6537
@bobsemple6537 3 жыл бұрын
@@timothyblackburn2830 Yup. Because the slavers at there too and do you think he'd be the type of person to miss out on that?
@jackmcfarlane7173
@jackmcfarlane7173 3 жыл бұрын
"I am now certain that the crimes of this guilty nation cannot be purged away but with blood," he wrote when he died. Less than a year later, the union was at war with itself.
@Joseph-yt4ir
@Joseph-yt4ir Жыл бұрын
I was about to add this... when I saw you already had. That famous quote was in a note he passed to the guard who had been his jailor for the seven weeks between his capture and his execution. The man became quite fond of Brown in that time, and in appreciation for the guards kindness, when Brown gave him the note, he also handed him the only thing of value he had on him - a silver pocket watch. The entire note read: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood. I had...vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done." - John Brown.
@Joseph-yt4ir
@Joseph-yt4ir Жыл бұрын
I just read a quote I'd never seen before from John Brown's wife. She was allowed to visit him in jail. Mary Ann Day, had married Brown in 1833. By 1859, when the raid occurred, the couple had 13 children, but only six survived to adulthood and just four survived their father (2 died in the Raid). This woman had suffered so much grief, and was about to lose her husband. She said: "I have had thirteen children, and only 4 are left; but if I am to see the ruin of my house, I cannot but hope that Providence may bring out of it some benefit to the poor slaves." 😯
@LEEboneisDaMan
@LEEboneisDaMan 5 жыл бұрын
🎶His Soul is Marching On!🎶
@Falcrist
@Falcrist 4 жыл бұрын
John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave, While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save; But tho he lost his life in his struggle to free the slave, His soul is marching on. Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah His soul is marching on! John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true, and brave; And Kansas knows his valor when he fought her rights to save. Now, tho the grass grows green above his grave, His soul is marching on. Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah His soul is marching on! He captured Harper's Ferry, with his 19 men so few, And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru; They hanged him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew, But his soul is marching on. Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah His soul is marching on! John Brown was John the Baptist of the Christ we are to see, Christ who of the bondmen shall the Liberator be, And soon throughout the Sunny South the slaves shall all be free, For his soul is marching on. Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah His soul is marching on! The conflict that he heralded he looks from heaven to view, On the army of the Union with its flag red, white and blue. And heaven shall ring with anthems o'er the deed they mean to do, For his soul is marching on. Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah His soul is marching on! Ye soldiers of Freedom, then strike, while strike ye may, The death blow of oppression in a better time and way, For the dawn of old John Brown has brightened into day, And his soul is marching on. John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave, John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave, John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on!
@TheKingsPride
@TheKingsPride 2 жыл бұрын
@@Falcrist it boggles my mind that people can claim that the civil war wasn’t about slavery when this and several different versions of it was an actual Union marching song.
@Falcrist
@Falcrist 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheKingsPride It used to boggle my mind, but white supremacy cloaks itself in propaganda, conspiracy theories, and bogus history ALL THE TIME. Now it's just frustrating knowing that it's bullshit but not being able to do anything about it... and knowing that "lost cause" BS has been around basically since the end of the war when Jefferson Davis immediately started writing his history.
@TheKingsPride
@TheKingsPride 2 жыл бұрын
@@Falcrist yeah, sadly the traitors weren’t rooted out properly in the name of propriety and they got to sow their seeds freely. The major abundance of confederate statues proves that, as well as the awful reluctance to tear them down, as if history books get erased every time a statue of a traitor and a slaver gets removed. So many of them also hide behind the “democrats were the party of slavery” smokescreen, willfully ignoring the historical policy shift surrounding FDR.
@Falcrist
@Falcrist 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheKingsPride Unfortunately for ALL of us, there was no simple way to "root out all the traitors". These people had been spreading their propaganda for generations, so even if you really did "hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree" as the song says, other people probably would have come up with the same bogus history. Getting rid of that ideology completely would have meant committing a partial genocide and then abolishing the freedom of speech protections in the first amendment so you couldn't talk about that ideology. I don't think that would have been a moral strategy at all. In some ways it was good that we allowed people to live, but part of me wishes that at least a few of the top guys were hanged for what they did. As far as the party switch, I advise being precise about your language to the point of pedantry. It wasn't a 1-to-1 switch, and demographically it wasn't complete until Reagan... when white "conservatives" in the south finally started voting consistantly for "Republicans" at all levels.
@kevinpaul1847
@kevinpaul1847 4 жыл бұрын
"he was hung at 11 and a half o'clock and died with unflinching firmness" -Stonewall Jackson
@rudranshu65sengupta14
@rudranshu65sengupta14 3 жыл бұрын
kevin paul I think a small part of him did admire the man. You could literally say that by seeing what he said.
@kylewashburn5840
@kylewashburn5840 3 жыл бұрын
Whether that was quoted because of respect or because of fear, it was a quote of a man who understood the firmness of John Brown's character.
@rickjohnson9558
@rickjohnson9558 3 жыл бұрын
Poor Crazy Tom. He died in his bed, ranting with fever after being shot by his own troops.
@totallynotalpharius2283
@totallynotalpharius2283 3 жыл бұрын
“He died hallucinating and eith one arm “- some guy on Stonewall
@sandakureva
@sandakureva 4 жыл бұрын
John Brown was a patriot if ever there was one. Some men stopped on liberty with the white and wealthy, but he died holding the ideals of liberty for all.
@nathanielleack4842
@nathanielleack4842 2 жыл бұрын
Unlike many of his contemporaries who were fine with spitting in the face of the constitution and nature John Brown lived by the words that all men are created equal. I think he ought to be remembered as what the american spirit can be in its best self
@refoliation
@refoliation 2 жыл бұрын
I don't really think so. He was rebelling against an unholy, evil nation. He was a rebel and revolutionary. If you want to say America is a good nation because it has figures like Brown in it, that's fine, but it's important to remember the conflict and struggle these figures are forged in, and that's the struggle against an evil exploiting nation and it's institutions.
@refoliation
@refoliation 2 жыл бұрын
@@82abhilash How many slaves did the Union Army free? What about the abolitionist members of the legislature? How many did they free? What about specific military commanders, they each surely freed slaves to varying degrees? Or maybe they didn't because Lincoln freed them all (except the 11 attributed to Brown of course). What about black people working either in the Underground Railroad or in various military posts? Did they free any? What about the British decision to abolish chattel slavery prior to the US civil war, can we attribute any slaves freed to them? Surely it didn't hurt the cause of abolition, no? Why, exactly, did Lincoln decide to free the slaves when he did? If he had the power to free them why didn't he act, say, a day sooner? Because he couldn't or because he wouldn't? Maybe he had to wait for circumstances to be right and to shore up key support from other political constituencies? If so, why not share the credit with those whose support was necessary?
@82abhilash
@82abhilash 2 жыл бұрын
@@refoliation Share credit where it is necessary, but not with John Brown. He may have freed 11 slaves, but made life hell for millions. John Brown, the unwitting idealist that he is, helped feed the narrative of slave insurrection. A narrative used to further oppress the enslaved. Lincoln used knowledge and tact to achieve tangible results kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIK2mIaCaLiDntk
@WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight
@WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight Жыл бұрын
​@82abhilash Lincoln used a army imao not knowledge like John Brown but he wasn't so privileged he did more with less imao.
@pneumaone
@pneumaone 5 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a performance of John Brown's last words, I felt like I was listening to the man himself!
@uphigh2727
@uphigh2727 4 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@samueljackson315
@samueljackson315 2 жыл бұрын
“With the blood of the martyrs our flag is red!” There are few persons as deserving of the title of martyr and dare I say Saint in our ongoing struggle against injustice as our comrade and brother in arms John Brown.
@joeschmo4646
@joeschmo4646 Жыл бұрын
John Brown wasn’t a commie, that’s a slight on his name. Stfu
@Mq6vL9Bu
@Mq6vL9Bu 3 жыл бұрын
John Brown is the most underrated figure in US history, perhaps the most underrated figure in world history. David Straitharn does a great job with this one. The world is undeniably different, for the better, today because of John Brown. A true patriot and warrior of God. Peace.
@Zuentax
@Zuentax 5 жыл бұрын
And they claim till this day THIS GREAT MAN was insane... careful even I would follow and protect him in a heartbeat.....
@MrStrawberryfields4
@MrStrawberryfields4 4 жыл бұрын
He was both great and insane. Dude thought God could whisper in his ear to go right or left. He's like the America Joan of Arc. Awesome and crazy at the same time and that's ok.
@sandakureva
@sandakureva 4 жыл бұрын
This man was a patriot, and anyone saying otherwise is a traitor.
@atulyadora-laskey7056
@atulyadora-laskey7056 4 жыл бұрын
@@MrStrawberryfields4 He did not believe that. I've never found a source that has said that.
@thenoisyninja
@thenoisyninja 4 жыл бұрын
Nobody truly great is wholly sane. He was an awful family man by his own admission but look at it this way, he could have lived comfortably with his wife and kids but he could not in good conscience live comfortably while his nation used slavery to fatten it’s coffers. He scared the south and forced the north to act. You cant do that without being a little crazy
@Zuentax
@Zuentax 4 жыл бұрын
@@thenoisyninja it isnt normal.... peculiar at best... crazy though is something else... I dont regard his goal his means and the sacrifice it took from himself and his family as crazy... wars were fought and will probably be fought in the future... for what he stood for... he tried to stop that... he didnt completely succeed.. and there will probably be another confrontation... a very brave just man... within the greater picture... not the father I would hope for.... But still a true selfless just ally... a hero...
@emceeunderdogrising
@emceeunderdogrising 4 жыл бұрын
An absolute hero. Abolitionist till death. No negotiation. No faltering or surrender.
@zacharyking900
@zacharyking900 2 жыл бұрын
Though he did if fact surrender.
@Handles-Suck-YouTube
@Handles-Suck-YouTube 2 жыл бұрын
He surrendered a building, but never the cause. It should be noted that even that only happened when the troops offered that their lives would be spared if they surrendered, to which John Briwn replied something to the effect of "I would rather die here."
@natebox4550
@natebox4550 Жыл бұрын
@@zacharyking900He didn’t surrender, he was captured. There’s a difference.
@PrimusGladius
@PrimusGladius 4 жыл бұрын
John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave, While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save; But tho he lost his life while struggling for the slave, His soul is marching on. (Chorus) Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul is marching on! John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true and brave, And Kansas knows his valor when he fought her rights to save; Now, tho the grass grows green above his grave, His soul is marching on. (Chorus) He captured Harper's Ferry, with his nineteen men so few, And frightened Old Virginny till she trembled thru and thru; They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew, But his soul is marching on. (Chorus) John Brown was John the Baptist of the Christ we are to see, Christ who of the bondmen shall the Liberator be, And soon thruout the sunny South the slaves shall all be free, For his soul is marching on. (Chorus) The conflict that he heralded he looks from heaven to view, On the army of the Union with its flag red, white and blue. And heaven shall ring with anthems o'er the deed they mean to do, For his soul is marching on. (Chorus) Ye soldiers of Freedom, then strike, while strike ye may, The death blow of oppression in a better time and way, For the dawn of old John Brown has brightened into day, And his soul is marching on. (Chorus)
@kaziiqbal7257
@kaziiqbal7257 Жыл бұрын
He has gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord, and his soul goes marching on!
@philipkelly7369
@philipkelly7369 3 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, I loved John Brown beforehand and even I could not fully comprehend how fucking awesome the dude was. This performance has illuminated and elevated Brown for me even further.
@TheTsar1918
@TheTsar1918 Жыл бұрын
What's more, John HATED the way that Native Americans were treated and regarded in this country and compared it to slavery. He is truly a great American legend.
@acallwood8478
@acallwood8478 5 жыл бұрын
Very moving. John Brown. A hero of mine...….
@estebannemo1957
@estebannemo1957 5 жыл бұрын
It wasn't "John Brown and nearly 2 dozen slaves". It was Brown, 7 other white men, 12 free black men, 1 freed slave and 1 fugitive slave.
@Artzner52
@Artzner52 4 жыл бұрын
Sorry, Esteban, but you are incorrect. John Brown's company was 21 men. 5 of them were black. Of those, only 2 were formerly enslaved. Shields Green escaped slavery in South Carolina. Dangerfield Newby was born into slavery in Virginia. His mother was enslaved and had been "hired out" by her enslaver to Dangerfield's father, who was a white farmer. His entire story and how he came to be free and join Brown's company is too long and complicated to recount here. Osborne Perry Anderson was born in Chester in the free state of Pennsylvania. John Anthony Copeland and Lewis Sheridan Leary were from Oberlin, Ohio. The rest of Brown's men were white, and the company included 3 of his sons, Owen (who did not go into Harper's Ferry, but "manned" the fort at the Kennedy Farm in Maryland awaiting further orders), Watson and Oliver. There are numerous excellent books that tell Brown's story, but you have to carefully avoid the bad ones. Most of the best scholarship on him has been done in the past 25 years. Read anything by Louis DeCaro if you want to know the truth.
@paulmentzer7658
@paulmentzer7658 Жыл бұрын
@@Artzner52 Owen Brown had the Pikes, John Brown had made the Pikes to arm the slaves he intended to free, John Brown was NOT an idiot, he knew slaves were NOT permitted even to touch a firearm. Given this was the time period of muzzleloading firearms, it would take some time to train any slaves on how to use a firearm, till they could be trained John Brown intended to arm the slaves with Pikes, an arm that human beings have been using as a weapon for at least half a million years and thus we evolved to use Pikes (Spears intended to be thrusted not thrown). Recent "Tests" involving using such "Short Pikes" (10 to 12 feet long, instead of the very long Pikes of Alexander the Great and the Middle ages) and untrained people with such "Short Pikes" beat even trained swordsmen in combat over 70% of the time. With even minimal training that success rate for such short pikes goes up. John Brown intended to march into Virginia and free as many slaves as he could, train some to use the rifles he captured at Harper's Ferry but his plan was to fight defensive battles if he had to. John Brown knew he would NOT have the time to train the slaves he freed until he turned around and retreated back to Pennslyvania (Where Brown had more volunteers to help him, many with experience using firearms, in many ways it was for these volunteers the arms of Harper's Ferry were for, not the slaves he planned to free). Those Volunteers from Pennslyvania were to help John Brown, but most were unarmed and planned to use the Firearms stored at Harper's Ferry. When the local Militia formed up they contained John Brown and his 19 men in what is now known as "John Brown's Fort" but also blocked any of the otther volunteers from Marching south to come to John Brown's aid. Thus John Brown's plans had been defeated even before Robert E. Lee, JEB Stuart and five companies of US Marines arrived by train to actully capture John Brown and the survivors of his 19 men (Owen Brown survived for his existence and the Pikes were unknown to the Marines and local militia, thus when the raid failed Owen Brown went north to Pennslyvania. Owen was severly handicap (He could not use his right arm from childhood)and thus could not serve in the Army in the US Civil War and thus died in 1889 in Pasadena Califoria.
@robertfleming2639
@robertfleming2639 4 жыл бұрын
This man is not an actor. This is John Brown himself, traveled through time. He looks exactly like John Brown, wow! And what a performance!
@juliansearcie1758
@juliansearcie1758 4 жыл бұрын
San's john brown's huge balls
@chxchx
@chxchx 4 жыл бұрын
Weeping 🥺🥺. Thank you, John Brown. 🙏🏾 Just learnt of you today from Twitter. We must continue to remember you and the price you were prepared to pay for universal justice and freedom. We draw strength from this as we fight against other forms of injustice still plaguing so many of us around the world. Extraordinary performance by the actor.
@avenaoat
@avenaoat 2 жыл бұрын
You should read about Elijah Parish Lovejoy! His murder inspired John Brown. Excellent historian Du Bois wrote book about John Brown's life.
@ignacior.8895
@ignacior.8895 Жыл бұрын
John Brown's son Owen is buried above Pasadena in the hills of Altadena on what was once his property. His headstone stands alone on public property and can be seen by anyone. You can goggle the directions to the location. Owen Brown was a well known figure when he relocated to California. His funeral procession was photographed with a massive crowd there on the same street the city holds the rose parade on.
@alimsylla5367
@alimsylla5367 2 жыл бұрын
This man should be remembered on the same level of Malcolm x and Martin Luther King.
@IronPiedmont
@IronPiedmont 3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: David Strathairm would later go on to play Secretary of State William H. Seward in the Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln."
@DongusMcBongus
@DongusMcBongus 10 ай бұрын
And unrelated fun fact. He KILLS it as Klaes Ashford in The Expanse.
@realquietone68
@realquietone68 4 жыл бұрын
John Brown literally died, sacrificed his life (and those of his children) to end the dehumanizing practice of slavery.... Fuckin wow- so deep and profound, powerful and sad. What strength and courage 🙏🏾🙏🏾💯💯
@eldieunakasila-merrygold913
@eldieunakasila-merrygold913 5 жыл бұрын
John Brown was a g!!! Rest in Perfect Peace !!!
@erlandgriffith
@erlandgriffith 5 жыл бұрын
I salute you john brown 💪
@terryfolderson-qe5sq
@terryfolderson-qe5sq Жыл бұрын
my drama teacher would always tell us to "act in the moment" because we needed to understand our parts from the perspective of time and David did a phenominal job! John Brown was a great man who sacrificed a lot for the greater good
@misscommentarycleveland7142
@misscommentarycleveland7142 4 жыл бұрын
John Brown did his duty on earth as he has chosen.
@Waldenpunk
@Waldenpunk 4 жыл бұрын
John Brown is one of our greatest Heroes. Period.
@alundavies8402
@alundavies8402 3 жыл бұрын
I agree with you 100%
@tonycoltrane1311
@tonycoltrane1311 4 жыл бұрын
Written off as crazy, but John Brown was one of the rare examples of a white person dedicated to the principles of the Declaration of Independence. If you weren’t ready to stand with John Brown, you were complicit in perpetuating slavery.
@thomaspaine1815
@thomaspaine1815 3 жыл бұрын
Very rare example of a white person being dedicated ? Can you be a bigger racist POS ? Do you happen to know how many white men died in the civil war to end slavery ?
@greenbrickbox3392
@greenbrickbox3392 3 жыл бұрын
@@thomaspaine1815 most of those were conscripted and fought to preserve the union and all those on the South fought to preserve slavery. Lincoln was mainly in favor of preserving the union but it was thanks to the pressure of the radical republicans and abolitionists that he was moved to emancipation. The Republican party got rid of their radical wing post-war, turned their backs on reconstruction and became the party of industrialists and with further anti-labor/anti-civil rights pivots towards the South they are now the party that wants to preserve confederate statues glorifying the South that even Robert E Lee was against.
@thomaspaine1815
@thomaspaine1815 3 жыл бұрын
@@greenbrickbox3392 We Republicans are once again the party of the working class !
@greenbrickbox3392
@greenbrickbox3392 3 жыл бұрын
@@thomaspaine1815 lol every 8 years Republicans sell that line and every GOP Presidency wages stagnate further, and working class social services are cut to give tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations. There is no party for the US working class.
@thomaspaine1815
@thomaspaine1815 3 жыл бұрын
@@greenbrickbox3392 Trump got back working class jobs , go peddle your BS some place else!
@motomweusi836
@motomweusi836 5 жыл бұрын
I wept proudly.
@jdrammeh6745
@jdrammeh6745 4 жыл бұрын
Is 2020 and I’m just finding out about this legend today
@jesseberg3271
@jesseberg3271 4 жыл бұрын
Sadly, we do a piss poor job of teaching history in this country.
@casssmith2610
@casssmith2610 2 жыл бұрын
Don’t feel badly… many don’t. History doesn’t teach about the true heroes.
@degengam2781
@degengam2781 5 ай бұрын
They don’t want people to know about him
@neilreading3552
@neilreading3552 4 жыл бұрын
We sang John Brown's name with all Joy at my school, we didn't know who he was but we sang heartily. Our songbook had a lot of great songs "Camptown races" was a big favourite. btw, my school is in England! When I learned about him he became a hero, one of many from America...
@sizedtoaster0278
@sizedtoaster0278 2 жыл бұрын
"For he is on the side of justice and you are on the side of chains!"
@Rukhage
@Rukhage 3 жыл бұрын
The fact that this man is not on US currency speaks to the powers that be.
@BigPerm47
@BigPerm47 2 жыл бұрын
Congress decided that slavery is legal. John Brown, "I recognize that the congress has made a decision. But given that it’s a stupid ass decision I’ve elected to ignore it."
@theblitz6794
@theblitz6794 5 жыл бұрын
His soul is marching on!
@ernestmazi1685
@ernestmazi1685 4 жыл бұрын
What a man , may his soul continue to rest in peace 🙏🏾
@beepboop6244
@beepboop6244 2 жыл бұрын
may his soul go marching on, as the old sonf goes
@allanh7137
@allanh7137 4 жыл бұрын
He sacrificed his life and raised his children to do the same. My his legacy live on.
@cindyking7229
@cindyking7229 4 жыл бұрын
He was a great man.He didn't die in vain
@AithlynC
@AithlynC 3 жыл бұрын
Such a great performance. It feels so authentic. You immediately get the feeling that Brown was an excentric, stubborn, difficult man personally, but nonetheless a hero who held on to his moral convictions at all cost.
@casssmith2610
@casssmith2610 2 жыл бұрын
Passion is frowned upon by milquetoast. I share dna with John Brown. And I’m proud of being passionate and don’t apologize for it.
@Blaqjaqshellaq
@Blaqjaqshellaq 4 жыл бұрын
Was that Viggo Mortensen introducing him?
@ianmcneely2446
@ianmcneely2446 4 жыл бұрын
James Matthews Yes.
@gabrielchristian2740
@gabrielchristian2740 4 ай бұрын
John Brown resides in glory for his glorious acts in the cause of liberty. His crucifixion was the signal that doomed slavery in the United States. May we all strive to be so worthy. God bless the legacy of Captain John Brown. 🎉
@ibrahiymghany4996
@ibrahiymghany4996 5 жыл бұрын
Well don David, u did justice to how he actually delivered the words not from his mouth but from the pain of his heart. We don!
@Gravelgratious
@Gravelgratious 4 жыл бұрын
His truth is marching on!
@alularussell778
@alularussell778 2 жыл бұрын
I feel like this performance was just like it was done. An excellent job at stirring the emotions.
@ShubhamBhushanCC
@ShubhamBhushanCC 4 жыл бұрын
Real American hero. John Brown lives on in out hearts even in the third world.
@jeffmcclure6347
@jeffmcclure6347 5 жыл бұрын
Wow!
@deangeloellis6910
@deangeloellis6910 4 жыл бұрын
There should be statues of this man everywhere!
@homiedclown1885
@homiedclown1885 3 жыл бұрын
There's one in Kansas.
@zacharyking900
@zacharyking900 2 жыл бұрын
Nope
@deangeloellis6910
@deangeloellis6910 2 жыл бұрын
@@zacharyking900 yes
@Sparrows1121
@Sparrows1121 Жыл бұрын
Its a shame they havent made a kickass hollywood movie of him yet. I mean CMON, someone make that happen!
@Zopo214
@Zopo214 Жыл бұрын
Should be but he’s not “Americas” hero. Americans hero’s are Robert E Lee and those that fought to keep slaves in bondage.
@WesCoastPiano
@WesCoastPiano 3 жыл бұрын
John Brown is the greatest American that ever lived.
@anubhavnigam2483
@anubhavnigam2483 Ай бұрын
I'm a theater and classic cinema hobbyist based out of India.. This soliloquy and Naseeruddin Shah's Ashwatthama by Pt. Satyadev Dubey are my top 2 benchmarks for diction & dialogue delivery ❤❤
@andrewb8010
@andrewb8010 3 жыл бұрын
Got this video on loop.
@thegreatkingofevilganondor1500
@thegreatkingofevilganondor1500 2 жыл бұрын
Damn hero. Rarely do people with such an unwavering devotion to what is right appear through history.
@tommanzitti678
@tommanzitti678 4 жыл бұрын
A courageous, genuine humane BEing...Resting in Power.
@franciscolara438
@franciscolara438 2 жыл бұрын
As I heard his speech I feel honored to have heard it. When I was in high school I gave chief Joseph‘s last speech before he surrender. I literally practice so much so that I Could at least come close to the way he might’ve express himself. I admire this guy for doing such a great speech, it brought a tear to my eye. John Brown; there aren’t too many men in politics like him these days, I pray to GOD doesn’t forget about man like this. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@CarbonGearSolid
@CarbonGearSolid 5 жыл бұрын
Well spoken. Respect.
@NMitchell12345
@NMitchell12345 4 жыл бұрын
This mans father taught him that slavery was evil and he took up arms against it. He wasn't alone. And I think that if he knew what some of his acquaintances did to slaves in the quiet of their homes they would also see the sharp end of his axe. I think Tarantino should make this movie.
@Jamhael1
@Jamhael1 Жыл бұрын
Second!
@singletona082
@singletona082 17 күн бұрын
'Had I acted for the benefit of the rich, or the powerful, or for their kin. I would have been found to be rewarded rather than punished.' Depressingly.... familiar feeling in this day and age.
@iand4374
@iand4374 2 жыл бұрын
“I will have nothing to do with so mean an act. I would sooner take my gun and help drive you out of the country.” - John Brown after being asked to displace native-americans in PA, 1820s
@capntinwhistle
@capntinwhistle Жыл бұрын
His soul is still marching on!
@crimony3054
@crimony3054 4 жыл бұрын
"Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' "
@WhoAmI-lg2ph
@WhoAmI-lg2ph 4 жыл бұрын
John Brown was the hardest, bravest, most badass white dude to ever walk the face of the Earth.
@averagejoe6617
@averagejoe6617 3 жыл бұрын
David Straithairn is so, fucking, underrated it hurts.
@raymoore3735
@raymoore3735 5 жыл бұрын
Deep.
@beastmodebailey8083
@beastmodebailey8083 4 жыл бұрын
He did wonderful, he's a great actor anyway!....whenever I see him I think if his role in "Losing Isaiah " with Halle berry and Jessica Lange.❤
@livekaloo
@livekaloo 3 жыл бұрын
italy here, I just discovered the story of John Brown. what a great example! may him rest in the justice he fought for.
@Janon48
@Janon48 4 жыл бұрын
Take down the statues of Confederate traitors and replace them with John Brown
@chairmanoftheboard11
@chairmanoftheboard11 3 жыл бұрын
Real talk
@hulking_presence
@hulking_presence 6 ай бұрын
There's plenty space in Africa to put whatever you want there.
@racey9234
@racey9234 5 жыл бұрын
Just look at all the Brave Men that came b4 us. Salute John Brown. .👆🙏☝✊
@edwardrichard2561
@edwardrichard2561 4 жыл бұрын
John Browns body is molding in his grave his truth goes marching on. Glory Glory Hallelujah
@yzettasmith4194
@yzettasmith4194 3 жыл бұрын
John Brown is just possibly the bravest human being that ever lived.
@therearenoshortcuts9868
@therearenoshortcuts9868 Жыл бұрын
didn't David play a high ranking Union politician in the Lincoln movie??? knew he looked familiar somehow
@thecursor1
@thecursor1 4 ай бұрын
Most people didn’t know that John Brown suffered a terrible handicap due to his inability to walk upright…because of his massive balls and ginormous BDE.
@JohnCosmas
@JohnCosmas 3 жыл бұрын
John you are needed now as much as you were needed then
@anghusmorgenholz1060
@anghusmorgenholz1060 3 жыл бұрын
Fists clenched head up speaking the truth until the end. An American to show us what we are supposed to be.
@littlebendbig
@littlebendbig 10 ай бұрын
Honestly I am infuriated that we did not get the man who yelled on screen “I bid you stand men of the west!!!” To read the speech, I truly feel that a MASSIVE opportunity has been missed here
@DDARKmodp
@DDARKmodp 5 жыл бұрын
@johnberry3824
@johnberry3824 2 жыл бұрын
What a brilliant rendition.
@SilencedButNotForgotten
@SilencedButNotForgotten 3 жыл бұрын
Incredible performance!
@talivato
@talivato Жыл бұрын
John brown didn't have 2 dozen slaves at Harper's ferry. He had 20 soldiers, including about 7 black slaves and freed men
@ShubhamBhushanCC
@ShubhamBhushanCC Жыл бұрын
John Brown didn't pontificate on the immorality of slavery, his indignation at this assault on human dignity led him to war!
@JohnBdog
@JohnBdog 4 жыл бұрын
Another hero who should be more widely known, is Cassius Marcellus Clay. Amazing man, story, and connection to Muhammad Ali.
@shuandellellington8007
@shuandellellington8007 9 ай бұрын
Wow i definitely felt every word he said ❤❤❤
@BlueBookMen1000
@BlueBookMen1000 4 жыл бұрын
a great man with courage
@davidluna8372
@davidluna8372 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent portrayal , well done !
@yungwaifu
@yungwaifu 4 жыл бұрын
chills
@kennycook8212
@kennycook8212 Жыл бұрын
This man, who carried God in his heart, tore down something so disorientingly big, so evil, so corrupt. He should be honestly regarded as a modern day profit. With words AND action John Brown did what he was instructed by Jesus Christ himself to do. Truly, he is what a God trusting person looks like. No man had ever understood one solitary problem of the world so well as John Brown understood how to bring an end to slavery.
@Nobody-dl3sn
@Nobody-dl3sn 3 жыл бұрын
No one is free, until we all are.
@valmid5069
@valmid5069 8 ай бұрын
John Brown is a literal based Christian gigachad
@notyourmom3317
@notyourmom3317 8 ай бұрын
Viggo casually there for the intro
@toniwilson6210
@toniwilson6210 2 жыл бұрын
JOHN BROWN’S BODY LIES A MOLDERING IN THE GRAVE, BUT HIS SOUL GOES MARCHING ON.
@casssmith2610
@casssmith2610 2 жыл бұрын
I’m proud of the DNA I share with both John Brown and Ulysses S Grant. They are related to each other and most people don’t know that. Paintings of both men are on my Wall of Heroes. With include Washington, Lincoln, Douglass, Obama, JFK, Dr King.
@chaosXP3RT
@chaosXP3RT Жыл бұрын
You should be very proud! Brown and Grant are criminally often ignored
@winstonscollard
@winstonscollard 4 жыл бұрын
Saw this years ago, had to come back after watching The Good Lord Bird. If I had lived in those shitty times I hope to god I'd have ridden next to crazy John Brown. No good being sane when the world is upside down.
@warrenrhinerson6373
@warrenrhinerson6373 4 жыл бұрын
If my memory is current, this guy played Secretary of State William Seward in the 2012 Film Lincoln.
@Willy-nu3oc
@Willy-nu3oc 3 жыл бұрын
He did, that's who Ive only known him for ever since.
@Janine.Najarian
@Janine.Najarian Жыл бұрын
a REAL American hero. so very few of those
@scottroffman2325
@scottroffman2325 4 жыл бұрын
Viggo! Need to mention that he does the intro, you would get more clicks!
@pml08usaf
@pml08usaf 4 жыл бұрын
Charles Town, WV not Charleston, WV. Two different towns.
@ganarabagley843
@ganarabagley843 2 жыл бұрын
Great! Love this❤️🌹🙏🏽
@1080terry
@1080terry 4 жыл бұрын
I never heard of him before where in the heck I been so much too learn
@beardedbandittheroadwarrio5066
@beardedbandittheroadwarrio5066 4 жыл бұрын
History has a funny way of being edited by those who influence it.
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