How did John Browns Raid at Harpers Ferry cause the Civil War?
John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry was one of a myriad of events that sparked the Civil War. After his execution, John Brown became the country’s most polarizing symbol and greatly increased the animosity between the supporters of slavery and the abolitionists. After John Brown, the South became even more fanatical in the defense of slavery. To his supporters, John Brown was a saint who died in the noble cause of ending slavery; to his opponents, he was an insane murderer.
