"You may dispose of me very easily. I am nearly disposed of now. But this question is still to be settled--this Negro question. I mean; the end of that is not yet," is the testimony that John Brown gave at his trial. Many historians consider him "narrowly ignorant" and "God's angry man". The truth I God never commanded Brown in the sense of giving him instructions; rather, Brown thought deeply about the moral meaning of …showed first 75 words of 1559 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1559 total…have interfered as I have done, . . . in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it be deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done"