The Story of John Brown - Leader of the American Abolitionist Movement

[@EricRush]

It is good to hear narration from a human being rather than from a damn robot. Thank you, sir.

[@marcusedwards8283]

This man should have statues across the nation, and everyone should celebrate his name.

[@jeffmorin5867]

I would love it if people like yourself would actually read something on occasion...something that isn't sponsored government propaganda...

[@JAMEYSIMMS]

@@jeffmorin5867 Found the trump voter

[@EmperorDionx]

John Brown is one of the few men from that era that i would feel safe to go back in time and met as a black man

[@shawnkays3380]

There were more than we’re told. They need to keep the division going. As a white man. Or just a man created equal. Take care

[@danielroselle3625]

@@shawnkays3380who is “they”?

[@carolinadog8634]

@@danielroselle3625 democrats the same who enslaved black people in the first place and still mentally do. Lincoln was and still is a Republican.

[@Jmdwifi]

@@danielroselle3625democrats for sure is they.

[@danielroselle3625]

@@Jmdwifi 🙄

[@leolaurant2163]

When thoughts and prayers just won't do.

[@ronalddunne3413]

John Brown of Osawatomie was an answer to prayer and his times. His soul is marching on.

[@jeffmorin5867]

@@ronalddunne3413 you people are demented...

[@sionrouge1697]

RIP BROTHER BROWN. AND RIP to his son's and blessings to his family. Thank You

[@JacquelineDraper-k7x]

This Man & Historian is the Best High School History Teacher one could ever have!! So many Years later I am still Grateful, Inspired and Blessed to have had such an extraordinary and awe inspiring Master of History and the American Civil War as the profound and influencial educator as Fred Kiger! I know I speak for so many for the meaningful impact his teachings provided and continues to!

[@lloydparks450]

As an African American waiting for the spirit of John Brown to return, I love Mr. Brown. I saw the angels descending from heaven to pay vengeance to the wicked of the West.

[@MPM-yi1mj]

John Brown is a Kansas icon.

[@MichaelTreadwell-jo9bi]

I wrote a reply to a comment. My reply was not listed. Why?

[@isisnmagic1812]

Been waiting for this episode and it was worth the wait.

[@jamesmccrea4871]

I just said to myself "It's about time for Threads to release a new video." Punched in Threads, and what do you know? Posted 16 minutes ago.

[@murrayscott9546]

Stand up and be counted.

[@jasonculp9980]

Best damn civil war documentary since Ken Burns! Glorious work!

[@gordonhuskin7337]

Ken burns is a communist btw

[@chuckspace2700]

I look forward to all of your content. Thank you

[@terryeustice5399]

Thanks!

[@David-pn7gh]

Here was a man with strong conviction!!!! Apropos Missouri ruffians; it was German farmers who surrounded the MO Courthouse and The Show Me State became a Border State.

[@rafaelfeliz9961]

Short, inspirational, narrator spoke clear and distinct, main stream American English.... I would love to see All your "Threads from our National Tapestry"

[@carolinadog8634]

Gentleman this is the greatest channel on KZbin!

[@tonytonez3769]

Thank you for sharing with us

[@terryeustice5399]

The story of John Brown and their plight. Was very good! 👍

[@Murcans-worship-felons]

Outstanding offering. Subscribed. So unpretentious.

[@TheMischief9]

He correctly predicted the Civil war .

[@andrewkeith4307]

This guy's voice like the guy from Ken burns civil war make you feel like you're there

[@arturovasquez3765]

I was born in the state of Texas. So I'm an American citizen by birth. Even though I was born 150 years after Mr. John Brown, he is a ( hero of mine. 👍

[@sprsmoke]

He killed innocent, unarmed working people.

[@irawest7666]

I was also born in Texas. I later moved to where Bleeding Kansas happened, and where John Brown walked, and he became a hero of mine as well. ✌

[@patrickdevine8364]

Please consider doing a video on Nelson Baker. A civil war veteran and the founder of The Our Lady of Victory complex near Buffalo, NY.

[@MichaelTreadwell-jo9bi]

I am interested in Millard Fillmore who was from Buffalo the 13th President. What would the Our Lady of Victory Complex be all about?

[@ronalddunne3413]

YAY!! Human narration! Thank you... 😍

[@patjacksonpodium]

The man was nuttier than a squirrel, but that didnt make him wrong. 👍🏼

[@jeffmorin5867]

Good intentions pave the path to hell...

[@JAMEYSIMMS]

No, he wasn't. That's bullshit propaganda and a futile attempt to take the power out of one of the greatest liberal leader's legacy.

[@richjg3049]

Really really good. This is how history should be taught

[@virgiljohnson7504]

Well I'll be John Brown! That's a saying that I've heard my entire life and I'm 63 years young it's a old saying that represents a way of curiosity or a state of shock about some new information you've heard

[@murrayscott9546]

All it takes is for one to stand up and take that oath. I will lixe here or I shall die here.

[@DaveSCameron]

To this day every English person knows the bars, the chant and despite only a minority having a clue where it came from, most believing it the hymn that some religious dandy plagiarised the music and rewrote the lyrics to a create a new hymn that became a favourite of the pews. It’s to Mr Brown and his colleagues took it upon themselves to make a decision that would make many of today’s people reach for their remote control instead and having witnessed the most vile acts when white men considered black men as we treat our family pets, ( I’m being far too generous but we’re all aware of the horrors of the results of a deal with an African chief meant a coffin ship across the triangular routes.)and Mr Brown felt a sense of righteousness that his faith forced him into action. Considering Britain, France and Spain had outlawed the slave market decades before his time he must have been incensed by the dismissive and appalling manner his fellow Americans were being subjected to and long may our ancestors and yours keep such folk songs alive and hopefully with the original intention and its another piece of shared history. Best wishes. 🇬🇧🙏🇺🇸📚☘️👏

[@BobbyNelson-b8o]

Loyalist rite here. You are dern honest and for wright. I will arrange to join

[@RailfanDownunder]

Superb work again Sir

[@MikeJonesU2gh]

I love this channel

[@gbafongbafon]

The greatest white man of all time

[@gordonhuskin7337]

HAHAHAHA oh wait, you're serious? LET ME LAUGH EVEN HARDER HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@CarlJohnson-uk4fe]

​@@gordonhuskin7337 The best 🤍 man America produced clearly the bravest most of them are too coward to fight for whats right.Cowards fight for slavery and wrong.

[@LegalesePodcast]

This was a truly, truly fantastic video... TBH, I usually don't even enjoy podcasts like this with no interesting visual footage to hold my attention. But the quality of storytelling in this video was so good I didn't need that. The story itself was more than enough to hold my attention. Kudos... and as someone who is pretty familiar with John Brown's story, I was impressed with how much new stuff I was able to learn from you. This was my very first time watching one of your videos, but if the rest are this good I can't wait to dig in.

[@KungFuFighter-h3k]

Thanks for the video.

[@murrayscott9546]

Bleedin' Kansas .

[@ianwhitehead3086]

So well produced

[@michaelgriffin740]

I tell ya, if John Brown didn't have bad luck, he wouldn't have any luck at all.

[@robertphipps5444]

Fred, I'm loving your videos; the writing, the narration, all of it. One point. In your opening you say "...history is alive and 'revelant.' The word is RELevant. That is a not-uncommon mispronunciation by uneducated people, and will turn off other grammar pedants like me. Maybe reedit that part?

[@murrayscott9546]

Wilikonson's Swords. Famous Canadian Company.

[@nicolelabram5575]

Only in America Folks !

[@soamisa8550]

Wow he was born 5 months after George Washington Death.

[@isisnmagic1812]

John brown has a seat at heavens cook out.

[@gordonhuskin7337]

Yeah, maybe on opposite day

[@liberianlegateeshow-dualu1355]

He does

[@compactcasette]

A great man.

[@williamwebster7325]

Thanks for seeking the truth 🙏 about John brown 😊

[@gordonhuskin7337]

that he was a violent terrorist?

[@maxineking5073]

Like your ancestors

[@upchu005]

Didn’t him and his gang accidentally kill a free black man during their raid on the armory in Harper’s Ferry?

[@PatchesBlanche]

Yes

[@amalgamated-]

I guess that councils out all the good he did right? I see what you did there….

[@upchu005]

@@amalgamated- I’m sorry that you incorrectly inferred that from my comment, but that’s not what I was trying to do. I remember seeing the American Experience on John Brown years ago, and I thought I remembered that happening during the raid. It was simply a question and nothing more.

[@gordonhuskin7337]

@@amalgamated- what good? he was a filthy proto-communist and a terrorist

[@Obamas_Nipple]

@@amalgamated- what good did he do?

[@ChipRohlke1]

Another example- the ends never justify the means. It’s easy to justify violence to try to correct injustice but in the end far better to follow Christ and use non violent means.

[@patjacksonpodium]

And I'm sure those good God fearing slaveholders would have just let their slaves go if we'd only have asked nicely.

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

Non violence only works when your enemy has a conscience. The Slaver class did not. They sent their own sons into the meatgrinder willingly but refused to let their “property” be used to help the same war effort. Their entire society is held up by violence and could only have been brought down by it

[@HarryFlowerrs]

To talk of peace in a stolen land .........🤔

[@murrayscott9546]

If my horse comes imna winnna !

[@LonelyRanger902]

John Brown sounds like a violent psychopath to me. Getting revenge for the killing of people that you didn’t even know, by killing people that didn’t even do the crime, is madness.

[@Crezelltree4261]

No more a violent psychopath than many of the southern slaveolders or the emerging Ku Klux Klan.

[@ToughTitty]

Those Brown killed were in active crime.

[@Bleed_Burgundy_Piss_Gold]

John Brown a true noble, honorable American Hero…This is who deserves statues, streets and school names.

[@chadmcdaniel7740]

Him and his men murdered dozens of families with hatchets and burned the alive just on the suspicion of being pro slavery. I grew up next to his old farmstead. Learn your history

[@carolinadog8634]

A man who murdered innocents.. including his own people. No historical figure is cleansed of sin.. not Brown, not Lee, not Lincoln.

[@4evermistyblu]

✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼

[@Bleed_Burgundy_Piss_Gold]

@@4evermistyblu This man took on the whole country with 20ish men and never folded all the way to the gallows!! We got statues of wicked rapist, kidnappers, torturers,SLAVE OWNERS ….ETC and don’t celebrate one of the few at the time that stopped and said “this is some evil wicked s***” . S/N Salute to Dangerfield Newby, Nat Turner and Gabriel among other Virginia legends.

[@4evermistyblu]

@@Bleed_Burgundy_Piss_Gold PREACH

[@chriskuzianik9507]

Whereas I agree with the principles for which he stood, his methods were.... questionable. I'm pretty sure he suffered from some manner of mental illness. That all being said, I'm glad you did this video. Your objectivity and insight are appreciated.

[@jhosk]

He was a murderer who used a cause to take life unjustly. Is a huge difference between killing and murder.

[@ericstroud5823]

He was a rogue 😂

[@dillonhastings8438]

He also slaughtered people who had nothing to do with slavery

[@shirleygooch9525]

He was a murderer. Right or wrong on slavery, a murderer just the same.

[@kjbldp]

I am curious what would you have done to help free enslave people，Let me guess absolutely nothing

[@phillipbanks2768]

Not an angel a demon

[@maxineking5073]

I think you have that the wrong way round . The, 😈 were the slave owners and all the people who got rich off the suffering of my people.

[@danielpuckett7792]

Thanks!

[@universalisboy]

Thanks!

[@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry]

Thank you as well!