KRP+oral+presentation+on+John+Brown

** "A hero is someone who willingly helps someone else's life significantly." (Significantly in the person who is being helped's eyes.) **

These were my last words: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood (on the day of his execution, 1859)" -John Brown

__**Consequences of being heroic:**__ I was punished for my physical actions, I was tried in court and I was found Guilty of treason, and conspiring and advising with slaves and others to rebel and murder in the first degree. I was sentenced to be hung in public, on Friday, the 2nd of December. Another punishment was at Harper's Ferry when I sent some of my followers to send the word of freedom to slaves. I guess slaves told their owners and then we were ambushed at Harper's Ferry by all the angry slave owners. This and being hung were the most startling moments of my life.

I am a hero for giving my life to free others for what I believed in. I believe that all people should be treated equally and nobody should be treated the way these slaves were.

I am a very religious man and I believe that God put me on Earth to show his beliefs about slavery. I believe I did an act of Jesus by freeing slaves and sacrifiving my life for others freedom.

We were out numbered at Harper's Ferry like a bear attacking a squirrel tied to a tree. We had 21 untrained men and were surrounded by a company of U.S. Marines.

Before the Pottawatomie Massacre I and my troops climed through the window of James P. Doyle and ordered him and his two adult sons to come along as prisoners. I feel bad about the capturing because some of my men later participated in an execution to these innocent men which I did not participate in but I am guilty for not stopping it.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/johnbrown/browntrial.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_%28abolitionist%29#The_Raid