A Legend to the North, A Terrorist to the South, But What Do YOU Think?

John Brown was a martyr because he may have planned an uprising and  made it happen, but then was sentenced for treason and punished to death. This makes him a martyr because a martyr is someone that was sentenced to death because of their beliefs, and John Brown believed that slavery was wrong. He believed he had to fight to stop it. Technically, he was known as a terrorist to the South, and when the flag was at half mast when he died, the south was furious because he’s being honored for killing so many people. Meanwhile, the north praised his decision because they’re abolitionists and they hate slavery, and they want it to be stopped. John Brown said in his note, that the fight between slavery would be fixed only with a war, and that nothing else would fix it. However, I don’t support slavery either, so I support John’s decision, even though some people died. This is why I think he’s a martyr.