It interests me that John Brown is painted as such a villain, he definitely could be what some historians say he was, but we still venerate the likes of Robert E. Lee as hero and representative of the people's cause, when Lee was a racist. He led the forces of one of the most greed-infected people's of the ages, people for cash. John Brown, though his methods were extreme, fits the idea of America better than Robert E. Lee, in my mind.
It interests me that John Brown is painted as such a villain, he definitely could be what some historians say he was, but we still venerate the likes of Robert E. Lee as hero and representative of the people's cause, when Lee was a racist. He led the forces of one of the most greed-infected people's of the ages, people for cash. John Brown, though his methods were extreme, fits the idea of America better than Robert E. Lee, in my mind.