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For the most part most Americans, both North and South, saw the Brown slave revolution as being radical and dangerous. Brown was a martyr to radical abolitionists, but for most Americans, Brown's violence was madness.
The radical abolitionists (circa 1800-1860) wanted the US to immediately outlaw slavery (with universal emancipation), and declare descendants of enslaved Africans as freedmen with all the rights of citizenship. In the South, the agricultural economy would likely have collapsed without a slave labor force, so they strongly opposed abolition.
New England was generally receptive to the goal of the abolitionists, while states like New York, and border states like Missouri were especially hostile to them. Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 Republican nomination in part because of fears that William Seward and Salmon Chase were to radical to be elected nationwide.
A stable radical is a radical that is not changing. A radical is a molecule or atom that has an unpaired electron.
The radical wing of the Republican Party were termed as such because of their insistence that slavery be abolished without regard to what the consequences might be. They were in fact abolitionists. Moderate Republicans and moderate Democrats understood that an immediate end to slavery might have unpleasant social and economic consequences. During the US Civil War they demanded that the war was fought to end slavery. Moderates sought to unify the Union first and deal with slavery later.
John Brown was a radical and a murderer who was made a martyre by radical abolitionists.
Abolitionists, Quakers and after 1854, Radical Republicans.
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The Abolitionists, the Quakers, the Radical Republicans, most people living in the North, the Slaves.
For the most part most Americans, both North and South, saw the Brown slave revolution as being radical and dangerous. Brown was a martyr to radical abolitionists, but for most Americans, Brown's violence was madness.
For the most part most Americans, both North and South, saw the Brown slave revolution as being radical and dangerous. Brown was a martyr to radical abolitionists, but for most Americans, Brown's violence was madness.
For the most part most Americans, both North and South, saw the Brown slave revolution as being radical and dangerous. Brown was a martyr to radical abolitionists, but for most Americans, Brown's violence was madness.
For the most part most Americans, both North and South, saw the Brown slave revolution as being radical and dangerous. Brown was a martyr to radical abolitionists, but for most Americans, Brown's violence was madness.
For the most part most Americans, both North and South, saw the Brown slave revolution as being radical and dangerous. Brown was a martyr to radical abolitionists, but for most Americans, Brown's violence was madness.
For the most part most Americans, both North and South, saw the Brown slave revolution as being radical and dangerous. Brown was a martyr to radical abolitionists, but for most Americans, Brown's violence was madness.
For the most part most Americans, both North and South, saw the Brown slave revolution as being radical and dangerous. Brown was a martyr to radical abolitionists, but for most Americans, Brown's violence was madness.