The Time Trial of John Brown Overview

[@demetricklouis5710]

He was a man the like of which few have been privileged enough to meet. Here was a man whom was truely prepared to fight and die for the cause of justice and equality. He did not look down on the black man, but saw a brother in need.

[@Zuentax]

@Tremell Israel john brown was different but his army was 25 strong 5 being his own kids... other whites said he was crazy... and look we are here now...

[@davidbauer1260]

Amen. John Brown was a hero, a martyr to the cause of freedom, and just maybe the greatest American that ever lived. And in the discussion of American abolitionists, and heroes, let's not forget, Shields Green, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. Four more, true American heroes.

[@theydontknow806]

The fact that our nation refuses to acknowledge this man & the roll he played in history, speaks Volume. RIP🙏🖤

[@Quentin217]

Actually, he is very well documented. This video claims that there were 40 books written about him. The places where his body lies "mouldering in the grave" and where he was captured and where he was dropped to eternity are tourist attractions. He falls short in acknowledgement only to the extent that history itself is unknown and/or ignored.

[@christinabutterfield1801]

@@Quentin217 They Don't Really teach that much about them in schools

[@CopperAboriginies]

They call him a Treasonous, John Brown was a Man of the Creator, he was a Righteous Servant of the Creator.

[@thinkman1]

Steven Kolb Do not add nor take away from the scriptures it will send you to hell. John Brown was a great American indeed.

[@rickyj5547]

A useless version of lsls in Western drag

[@doncarlin9081]

I couldn't agree more, brother!

[@nigelbodu4981]

This should be in every history book! First time I’m even hearing about this brave man.

[@sagebrooks6907]

Sitto

[@CopperAboriginies]

If liberals won't allow it, then we create a history of John Brown ourselves, the liberals can't stop that. You gotta think outside the Box you mind live in or the miseducation you received the liberals school of programming fools.

[@untamableblackgoddess4666]

Listen to Dick Gregory.

[@christinabutterfield1801]

@@CopperAboriginies you realize John Brown was left-wing first-time right?

[@grayrecluse7496]

John was on the wrong side of history in a way.

[@JLoud66]

John Brown is my great great grandfather. My mother said he was a distant relative and never elaborate, she would have turned 100 this year.. Her generation didn’t know how to process or accept his legacy.. I must say it’s an honor to be his direct relation.

[@delpemdog3544]

Not only was his two sons killed, his daughter and daughter in-law was killed as well, they also join him in this revoked.

[@DaggerSecurity]

Hey! My former roommate at HC shared your name. I don't suppose you are him, are you? If you don't know what HC means then I guess you are not him after all. In any case, take care.

[@kennethadams7808]

I believe he was a great man used of God. He and his sons gave there life for the freedom of others!!!! I would love to see a movie of his life!!!!!!

[@gwattsrealestate]

Although I am Extremly happy his name "Lives On" I don't want the Hollywood water down version of anyone with his character.... John Brown Jim Brown or James Brown for that matter

[@robinluich5576]

19 men who tried to rob a place and was killed.

[@christinabutterfield1801]

@@robinluich5576 cry about it traitor

[@ohiosfinest5889]

Did she say John Brown is not a hero?? John Brown is the definition of a hero!

[@davidbauer1260]

@love & peace Exactly, couldn't agree more!

[@davidbauer1260]

@Ohios Finest Amen.

[@marcuskyle8516]

JOHN BROWN THE TRUE HUMAN MODEL!!!!

[@juangee221]

And we shall both walk through the valley of Shadow and death and we shall fear no evil

[@SmithsonianAmHistory]

We're so glad you found this helpful and interesting!

[@lenardsmith8864]

Make the movie it would be a hit.

[@xx-bw3ri]

He was far from crazy he was for the people I remember when my grandfather used to get mad used to always say his name enjoy paradise John Brown

[@zerahyahudah5504]

Brothers and sisters go to you library and study up on this true American hero our ancestors only white friend there has not been one since he and his family sacrafice

[@bunnyboilerification]

There has been plenty,they get imprisoned or murdered like John brown,and they never get any help from black people.

[@petemercurio8638]

@@bunnyboilerification True, A better man may never live.

[@havensenjem955]

At 1:31- 1:45 can someone explain what he meant by that? "“When you consider that if I have a problem with what John Brown did, in some strange way I am saything that I have a problem with what the founding fathers did.” Is he saying that They fought for what they believed in. Why can’t John Brown? Thanks in advance!

[@jerimiahjohnston9208]

the man and his fellow freedom warriors are heroes

[@bugs4680]

I pledge when the time comes and its time to act , i will summon the spirit of john brown ,

[@andrecureton6862]

I never heard about him omg

[@illbomber1185]

This is why judging people cause of color is WRONG! He did nore4 BLACKS than MOST BLACKS! He's a American hero!

[@marcuskyle8516]

HERO FOR HUMANITY

[@williamwebster7325]

Do a 🎥 movie about him tom hanks would be a good actor to play him😇🙏

[@markyfabulous3184]

Daniel day Lewis

[@michaellopez7231]

SPIKE LEE here is a GREAT man JOHN BROWN time to make a movie of his life !

[@johnnywilliams7488]

John Brown the baddest White Man Who Ever Lived, Thank You Mr Brown.

[@gjmjajaj]

we celebrate the criminal Columbus but not this hero John brown

[@blkmamba40]

There are men and women I believe that are inserted in the timeline of history by divine forces to intersect with moment and action and John Brown was that man. John Brown is part of a great truth that is not an earthly truth but a universal truth about the character of God and the transcript of his character. John Brown is part of that truth and truth is like cream, it will always rise to the top. Mr. Brown will live again!

[@ojms97]

You can however do evil by doing nothing! Most did nothing or nothing effective. Doing nothing effective allows the true evil to continue and creates millions of victims.

[@emilitious7886]

@Tremell Israel I see you everywhere spreading hate and being stupid. Get some help, fool

[@blackwolfsaint3500]

This man should of been president at some point in history salute to this great American icon

[@christopherwilliams3065]

so here we are today October 2019 still slaves

[@Quentin217]

@simion pop Thank you. Please read mine other comment, the next one below.

[@danielheartfire614]

Yes, indeed. We are all slaves now to the government and the banks and corporations that own it.

[@untamableblackgoddess4666]

This just goes to show History = His story. They program you to what they want you to know. If you want the truth you need to research n read!!! Thank you John Brown for helping my ancestors.

[@paulsimon8269]

He was old testament...wearing the armor of god...freedom for the poor at all costs including his own neck.

[@TheProphessionalGeek]

His soul goes marching on....

[@danielheartfire614]

Violence is the answer often times. What most governments call a terrorist is in fact just someone who stood up the them and their vile corporate owners.

[@gwattsrealestate]

Well I'll be John Brown!!

[@Quentin217]

I arrived in Harper's Ferry in the summer of 1991 by way of the Kennedy Farm in the mountains of Maryland. I followed the route of John Brown's march and attack. I saw the place by the C&O Railroad where John Brown's body was returned to his wife. I spent a whole day at Harper's Ferry taking in the sights. During that same month-long vacation to and in the east, I was several times appalled by scenes of past awfulness that I visited. John Brown' and what he represented was a major background factor in the causation of some of them. ' Just after typing the previous paragraph, the emotions all came back to me, and my sight of what I am typing now is blurred by tears. I saw at Sharpsburg where dead men had been scattered over a landscape "turned red." At Gettysburg I was appalled at the size and scope of the battle and the vast five-figure number of dead, mortally wounded, and crippled for life. At The Wilderness I saw where wounded soldiers were burned alive because they were not able to move away from the fires. They screamed in agony until they could not scream any more and the cartridges in their boxes exploded with the heat. At "The Bloody Angle" at Spotsylvania I saw where dead men from both sides were piled up to four men deep where they fell. I saw many other things too that I shall now forbear from harrowing up you souls with. When you hear the praises of old John Brown, think of those men. Think of their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, wives and children who never saw them again in this life or only saw them again shattered and broken in body and spirit. Think of them when you hear any man or woman who is dedicated to spreading hate, division, and fanaticism or praising liars, demagogues, or the Lincoln regime. This nation, the United States of America, is now spiraling in the direction of another bloody civil war. In the name of God who loves all unconditionally, do not let some modern-day wild-eyed left-wing fascist "social justice" galoot to sucker you into helping him or her. Mark Holt, a veteran of First Gulf War and a Deplorable Thought Criminal.

[@Quentin217]

@Alec Alberti Thank you.

[@iAmKishaP]

What about all the black mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles? Anybody ever think of them?

[@Quentin217]

@@iAmKishaP Yes Kisha, many people have given to them much thought, and so have I. Black people suffered too. Many were killed or wounded in the war. Negro soldiers were used as cannon and rifle fodder at the battle of The Mine at Petersburg in the winter of 64/65. Hundreds were slaughtered and buried in a mass grave by Confederate defenders after failure of a frontal assault on Battery Wagner at Charleston, South Carolina. Many thousands were reduced to hunger and desperation when their means of economic support was destroyed in the war. That is to say that the farms where they worked were abandoned or destroyed and their homes used for firewood. Most of the former slaves who could do so stayed in place after the war. As for the others, the worst for the most came when they had to shift for themselves in an economically and physically ruined environment. Most had nothing and no legitimate way to get anything before they wasted away from malnutrition and/or disease. Typically the dispossessed gathered in squalid camps along streams and rivers for mutual support. There they died one by one from drinking polluted water, starvation, and violence of one kind or another. There were some who would walk the roads as hungry people the world over and down through history tend to do during famines. They know that there is no food where they are and feel that if they can keep moving they might find some or someone who will give to them something. When they can not walk any more, they just lie down and, with all hope in this life gone, pass into the spirit world. Especially after federal troops were withdrawn from the former Confederacy in '76, white southerners made life more difficult for negroes. They expressed their bitterness over the invasion, conquest, and oppression by passing local and state laws that were highly discriminatory against black people. Vigilante groups formed to terrorise and murder those who annoyed them in one way or another. Many thousands of black men were taken back into slavery worse than they had ever experienced before. That was especially the case in east Texas. They were arrested on the flimsiest pretext, sentenced to confinement, and then leased out to sugar and cotton growers, and then literally worked to death. That continued into relatively recent times. As I would not want to be a slave, I would also not want to own a slave or to aid and abet the spread of slavery. On the other hand, as I would not want to be shot, I would not want to shoot someone else. I am not against ending slavery. I am against the national government waging wars of aggression. Beware of slavery today. There are powerful forces in and over society that would enslave you from within and without. They are the liars and the left-wing, big government fascist social engineers who will brainwash you and everyone around you. The Demo'rat scum are prime examples but just one kind among many. Political Correctness is a religion of slavery. None is more a slave than one who just thinks that he is free. Know the truth and the truth shall piss you off. Then it will set you free. Mark Holt, Deplorable Thought Criminal.

[@Docmananoff]

John Brown: The Truest American Hero.

[@hughhoward5247]

Truest foreign ally is more like it 😂😂😂

[@hueyfreeman1983]

The greatest American to ever live and thats a fact not an opinion

[@BackwardTravisty]

Alternate history: John Brown teams up with Nat Turner to create a Free State.

[@jamesagwe2981]

That would be dope

[@kamulegeyakim]

Continue resting in power John Brown

[@bigrudyilwu38619]

GOD BLESS JOHN BROWN A HERO TO SOME A SAINT TO MANY!

[@WingDiamond]

"John Brown's Body Lies Moldering in the Ground But His TRUTH Is Marching On!"

[@10Hammers]

if he was crazy then normal is wrong.

[@danielheartfire614]

Yes!!! Yes!!! And again Yes!!!!!

[@HBSThugLife]

Why isn’t a movie made about John Brown??

[@terrydanks]

Well, there was. It's pretty old now though. Movie was called Santa Fe Trail. Made in 1940. Look it up. The historical novel, Cloudsplitter (1998), was going to be made into a movie . . . but never was. Martin Scorsese was involved at some point?

[@kofitatum8421]

Good man. Legendary.

[@bluebyyoublue839]

A true hero.

[@Lostntexas38]

I’ve never heard this take on John Brown.There is no doubt he was a hero of mankind,him and his family.

[@MissCaraMint]

Very informative, and interesting. I had never herd of John Brown before, but it makes you think a bout the question of morality.

[@Obasiliasfilosofos]

What made him go on a warpath was the murder of peaceful non-violent abolitionists by mobs & the indifference of local law enforcement to those slayings.

[@wilhelmhesse1348]

Who could play such an amazing figure from the current crop of A-list actors? Nah a real amazing character deserves better than a Hollywood star protraying him.. He needs a non A - Lister an everyday man to play this ordinary man that did extra ordinary things in the name of true justice.

[@Quentin217]

Johnny Cash played the role of old John Brown in North and South, a TV serial aired in the 1990's.

[@wilhelmhesse1348]

@@Quentin217 wow thanks...I remember North and South (from the mid to late 80s not 90s unless it continued up till then)it also had Patrick Swazye playing a character of a some what conflicted Confederate officer, or maybe the character wasn't conflicted...it was a long time I saw it. Didnt know JC was in it, a befitting role for him to play. JC also had a tragic upbringing and was one of the few entertainment stars of his time that was willing to offer a hand to marginalised people, so he most definitely related to the true life character he portrayed.

[@cyberus1438]

John Brown is to this day considered a hero here in Kansas

[@ericharrell7799]

so you mean to tell me this John Brown guy was something like Uncle Tom which Uncle Tom was a great guy one who would help people

[@zerahyahudah5504]

1853 was a dark day for us

[@elisianez1291]

John Brown was just the spark that started the liberation of the slaves, he was the only one of his time black or white with the balls big enough to take that match to light that bonfire, and he gave his life for it

[@texaspatriot2841]

Read “The Good Lord Bird” by James McBride. Brilliant author.

[@Bkgiest]

People are still hesitant to call him a hero, but we have statues and military bases named after confederates

[@johnnywilliams7488]

The Baddest White Man Who Ever Lived .

[@keithwilson9378]

how i see it the slave owners used violence raped the woman it should of been buy violence no question about it they needed to all be killed

[@eugenerodney5892]

JOHN BROWN was the greatest white American that ever lived......White Americans should celebrate him

[@abrahambendavid.7474]

Should be honored in black history month.

[@KianaG1280]

John Brown was the only non racist white man. Period!!!!!.✊🏿

[@markherron1407]

I found out from Israelite Truth Channel that John Brown IS BLACK 🖤 Blessings and Hugs 💖💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕!

[@hikikomori5]

Who don't you want to call him a hero?

[@BibleSamurai]

this man sacrificed his life and his son's lives for a cause that wasn't his own. He went against a system, the rich, and his own people. Probably helped spark the civil war that ended the abomination of slavery. Therefore, in my opinion, the greatest white American that ever lived.....but it appears this country needs a few more generations to recognize that

[@michaelwoodward9894]

America talks of freedom for all except the enslaved people,and justice for all except the formerly enslaved people,yet you asks those formerly enslaved people to fight for freedom around the world yet when they come back home,those formerly enslaved children don't or cannot enjoy freedom or do not know what it is by the same one who clam to love it

[@kevinmarleyRevolution777]

I don't know how 'violent' was John Brown. He IS remembered for going to Harper's Ferry and trying to get the African-Americans (Negroes in 1860's parlance) to revolt. They were so oppressed and conditioned that they didn't. Quickly, John Brown was captured and 'the revolt' that happened never really happened. The interesting thing about John Brown besides history making him into a 'wild-eyed fanatic' was that he considered Black men, women and children to literally be his brothers and sisters. The next person who stated that fact bluntly wasn't Abraham Lincoln, Grant, or William Douglas, it was Martin Luther KIng, Jr.

[@joedefilippo8908]

John Brown- His soul is marching on! soundcloud.com/hillipsand/glory-glory-john-brown-tribute

[@josephjohnson701]

Probe the appearance and appropriate its essence of the Notion. The John Brown led raid taking Harper's Ferry isn't to be compared to the British colonists war of independence from the empire, but to the storming of the Bastille in the French Revolution . . . John Brown and Jean-Paul Marat!

[@chlobo2070]

Who saw the kid on his phone

[@sgtJOOSEcapeS]

Now most Blackman i kno is in the system and J.B. was tryin to getttem out the system (message)

[@CopperAboriginies]

John Brown knew the truth of the people being enslaved but ya'll still don't know or you still turning a blind eye to who the socalled enslaved are by these foolish videos. Tell the truth

[@sonna4298]

Let Mel gibson direct it if they make a movie I don’t like his personal life but he is a very damn good director he can make you visualize the times like you was there

[@Borderose]

Like Braveheart meets Django?

[@Mr1cabbage1]

This so called women said it is not her intentions to make him a hero at all.. obviously not to racists.

[@christopherwilliams3065]

is a shame that Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman would not team up with him to free slaves it takes a white man to help us that's a shame

[@jknumber5138]

Harriet Tubman had her own team{just like Jordan}. She saved just as much slaves as John Brown did

[@hughhoward5247]

@faith umuk you sound dumb asf.

[@Quentin217]

Actually, John Brown had been a conductor on the "underground railroad" in Ohio for several years in the 1840's and/or 1850's. He might have been in collusion with Harriet Tubman some way or another..

[@Borderose]

Douglass was a friend, but he told John flat out that he can't support the move because it was too risky. Tubman _tried_ to get him more men for his raid, but in a bad stroke of luck, I think she got sick and couldn't help him in time. They all worked together and knew each other. The modus operandi was for them to escort freed or escaped slaves to Canada. Douglass took care of the refugees and spoke on their behalf in public, Tubman helped them navigate "the railroad", and Brown gave militia support and hid people in secret "stations" on the way North. However, I think John Brown got desperate and angry with what he saw as the double-standards blacks, slave and freemen, as well as abolitionists have to deal with from the United States as a whole. He was frustrated that pro-slavers seem to have more protection and public support for what he saw as their "wicked and cruel" ways than blacks or even those trying to help them got--he felt like even supposed Free States were too accomodating to the slavers. Basically, he got pissed and wanted to send the angriest message he could make by raiding a federal armory and trying to incite a slave revolt in Virginia right under the nose of Washington.

[@kamulegeyakim]

@@Borderose thanks for the information

[@stephensmith3708]

John Brown is the American version of Oliver Cromwell! A Puritan, mean for God and not of man. He doesn't celebrate man made holidays and no idols in the High place, no images in the temples. Oliver Cromwell freed the minds of the poor with education by opening up the oldest university in England. John Brown, on the other hand, wanted to end slavery. Fought to the end and never apologized for his actions. PS, like Cromwell, Brown was also a Puritan!

[@rudyflores8886]

Blacks should bring this history teach your children bout this man you owe it to him. God rest his soul.

[@andrewo.b.7638]

We were taught about him in California schools in the 1950's. We even sang a song about him.

[@illbomber1185]

HEAVEN SENT HIM

[@jknumber5138]

The bible said SLAVES OBEY YOUR MASTER!!!{good or evil}

[@illbomber1185]

@@jknumber5138 what the HELL u talking about fool?

[@jknumber5138]

ILL BOMBER! My bad. I thought you read that evil book called the bible. I guess heaven sent wasn't in a Christian term when you said it

[@Quentin217]

Heaven sent everyone, but it might be a little selective in who it accepts back.

[@grandprz1008]

Exactly why the fuck is the story??

[@reginatemple1359]

He looks like Abraham Lincoln’

[@Borderose]

The South thought so too.

[@henrythompson1024]

John Brown Harris released and he stood behind believe released and he did not let anybody change his believes

[@oldmal60]

He killer 6 innocent (non slavey owning) people. One was black. He was charged with first degree murder. Jury found him guilty, huh. He hung for his crimes. Being a maniac may not be a smart move.

[@NicoSoEpic]

I hate how my ancestor was killed for this (yes we are related

[@patrickbiglane717]

I find this historical account seriously lacking detail with regards to the destruction and loss of innocent life that Brown’s insurrection occasioned. He murdered several people in cold blood a few months prior to the Harper’s Ferry incident. He led an armed invasion - consisting of 5 of his sons - in Pottawatomie Creek, KS. (One man -a complete stranger - he shot in cold blood simply because he didn’t like his answers with an interrogation. Another man, along with his 3 sons, was pulled out of his cabin. John Brown shot him point blank, and Brown’s son, Frederick, proceeded to hack one of this man’s sons to death. The other son was killed also, but youngest one (16 y/o) was spared. This was NOT lawful resistance; it was an ISIS type of terror attack that set in motion a chain of carnage and destruction that lasted two more years. Historians refer to it as “Bleeding Kansas”. If you want a good example of how to resist the evils of slavery, take a look at William Wilberforce of England. He was forerunner of the Abolition movement in early 1800’s. He effected civil and social change without incurring any bloodshed.

[@ladyraven30]

William Wilberforce was in England. This is America. When dealing with a government that has no issue murdering and enslaving others, sometimes you have to take it to them the same way.

[@dendrzewiecki9170]

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Bro John Brown was an abilistijts. A Baptist

[@lovelifefatty180]

Couldn't disagree MORE.. Our founding fathers had to do certain things going in the right direction, they needed to take it slow.. John was was a hero in that time cuz he wasn't A politician..