@@HistoryUniversity Jus because we couldn't find it doesn't mean you won't have better luck. I know the song itself is Public Domain, but I couldn't find any performances that were. Maybe you could have someone record the song just for you.
Fantastic video! Good to remember those who fought against injustice - even those that failed. One of those great historical "what ifs." The abolitionists, especially those who ran the underground railroad, definitely fascinate me - forward thinkers in a backwards time. Makes you wonder what you would do back then. Great content here as always!
While visiting an older relative in Lorton, VA my wife and I wanted to visit a Civil War site. We knew that it would be an all day adventure so we picked on site. Harpers Ferry, WVA. I am so glad that we went there. It was beautiful mid October day, warm and lots of sunshine. Harpers Ferry is a very neat fully restored town set at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers. While we did not have a Cadillac and I was not in the back seat, like Tim McGraw in his song "I Need You," we all enjoyed driving through West Virginia that day.
A real hero!!! Sadly, we seem to be going backwards with all the hate being spewed these days. Racism is ignorant in my opinion and ignorance is the fuel of racism. One has to be ignorant to judge someone based on the color of their skin or their place of origin. Disgusting.
My Dad told me it is almost ,or impossible, to argue in favor of a know wrong! How can any one ever,ever, think slavery, is RIGHT? To day John Brown is a foot note, in forgot history, and Lee haves statues of him all over the south, right/or wrong ?
Now in these time's To deny the inhumanity or existence ,of slavery, in wrong! To blow out of proportion, that woke is not patriotic . I can still love the USA. And know we the people are not perfect. We can work together and fix the past, by fixing the future! We can truly make America grate again !
Did Dr. Trowbridge have an explanation for why John Brown thought of this situation as a biblical struggle? It's interesting that John would think that way at that time since many believed that Africans had dark skin because they descended from Ham who sinned against his father, Noah. Obviously, this is incorrect, but I'm curious how John reconciled that belief assuming he didn't know evolutionary history haha
Dr. Trowbridge didn't really go into it. So this, is basically my own assumption based on what I know about John Brown. Brown was a devout Calvinist, as you probably know predestination is a major tenent of Calvinism and when you couple that with the way he was raised by his father Owen who was a steadfast abolishinist and taught Brown that slavery was an evil insitution, it makes sense at least to me that Brown would believe that ending slavery was something he was predetermined to do.
@@RecordWestVirginia Funny thing, that John Brown's raid together with a simle novel "Uncle Tom's cabin" together helped the end of the slavery. (Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel made a so supportive common public in UK and France that the two main European powers could not support or did not dare to recognize the Confedaracy mainly after Lincoln's emantipation!) Nobody knows the seccession could start with the 7 original starting states (Florida, South Carolina, Texas, Mississippi , Alabama, Lousiana and Georgia withouth John Brown's raid after Lincoln's victory? Lincoln as simple poltitian told after the raid it had been a suicidal plan from John Brown and fellows, but this was a catalizator to accelerate the events to the Civil War. Originaly Lincoln and the mild and central republicans wanted to ban the slavery system in the Wild West territories as Kansas and Nebraska and they followed Clay's plan a step by step abolution with money compensation. I think this would have been a about 25 years long process similar time long as the Brasilian's abolution of the slavery system was in 1888! The John Brown's raid radicalized the Deep South!
@@RecordWestVirginia I am interested in the early life of United States from the Revolution War to the End of the Civil War so the book of Du Bois helped to learn more about that time. Difficult to decide on John Brown without knowing that time. The slavery was a huge breaking point so first the Bleeding Kansas and Harpers Ferry raid were the breaking impulses and John Brown had huge roles in both.
Bleeding Kansas radicalized North, John Brown's raid radicalized South and Harriet Beecher Stowe neutralized France and the United Kingdom, for example Queen Victoria was North sympatitizer against her Prime Minister Palmerston. I think this opinion is a too strong simplification of the events, but some trues could be in them.
You’re wrong. It was his willingness to fight and die, even in the face of impossible odds, that helped to shame less bold white Americans into resisting slavery. The effect his life and death had on history wouldn’t have had nearly the same impact had he just gone to Canada and worked with that community.
There is no way to know for sure, how things would have played out if John Brown would have chosen another fight to potentially strike a blow at Slavery. What Dr. Trowbridge is suggesting is that had Brown listened to Black leaders he may have found a way to have just as big of an impact without sacrificing his life. Of course, this is just Dr. Trowbridge's opinion. It's an incredibly informed one as he is an expert on Brown's life and race relations in America, but his opinion none the less. Thanks for watching the episode and for sharing your perspective.
Very grateful to be apart of this series, thank you Record West Virginia.
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
His soul goes marching on!
We wanted to use this song in this episode but couldn't find a version we would get clearance for.
@@RecordWestVirginia Oh man that's annoying I was thinking about doing a John Brown video myself, that's disappointing that I can't use one
@@HistoryUniversity Jus because we couldn't find it doesn't mean you won't have better luck. I know the song itself is Public Domain, but I couldn't find any performances that were. Maybe you could have someone record the song just for you.
Fantastic video! Good to remember those who fought against injustice - even those that failed. One of those great historical "what ifs." The abolitionists, especially those who ran the underground railroad, definitely fascinate me - forward thinkers in a backwards time. Makes you wonder what you would do back then. Great content here as always!
Glad you enjoyed it
This was very informative. Thank you.
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.
While visiting an older relative in Lorton, VA my wife and I wanted to visit a Civil War site. We knew that it would be an all day adventure so we picked on site. Harpers Ferry, WVA. I am so glad that we went there. It was beautiful mid October day, warm and lots of sunshine. Harpers Ferry is a very neat fully restored town set at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers. While we did not have a Cadillac and I was not in the back seat, like Tim McGraw in his song "I Need You," we all enjoyed driving through West Virginia that day.
A real hero!!! Sadly, we seem to be going backwards with all the hate being spewed these days.
Racism is ignorant in my opinion and ignorance is the fuel of racism. One has to be ignorant to judge someone based on the color of their skin or their place of origin. Disgusting.
My Dad told me it is almost ,or impossible, to argue in favor of a know wrong! How can any one ever,ever, think slavery, is RIGHT? To day John Brown is a foot note, in forgot history, and Lee haves statues of him all over the south, right/or wrong ?
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Appreciate it! lol
Now in these time's To deny the inhumanity or existence ,of slavery, in wrong! To blow out of proportion, that woke is not patriotic . I can still love the USA. And know we the people are not perfect. We can work together and fix the past, by fixing the future! We can truly make America grate again !
I think if you truly love anything you should be able to push for it to be better, always.
Did Dr. Trowbridge have an explanation for why John Brown thought of this situation as a biblical struggle? It's interesting that John would think that way at that time since many believed that Africans had dark skin because they descended from Ham who sinned against his father, Noah. Obviously, this is incorrect, but I'm curious how John reconciled that belief assuming he didn't know evolutionary history haha
Dr. Trowbridge didn't really go into it. So this, is basically my own assumption based on what I know about John Brown. Brown was a devout Calvinist, as you probably know predestination is a major tenent of Calvinism and when you couple that with the way he was raised by his father Owen who was a steadfast abolishinist and taught Brown that slavery was an evil insitution, it makes sense at least to me that Brown would believe that ending slavery was something he was predetermined to do.
I read the life of John Brown from W.E.B. Du Bois in my native languege.
How did you like it?
@@RecordWestVirginia Funny thing, that John Brown's raid together with a simle novel "Uncle Tom's cabin" together helped the end of the slavery. (Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel made a so supportive common public in UK and France that the two main European powers could not support or did not dare to recognize the Confedaracy mainly after Lincoln's emantipation!) Nobody knows the seccession could start with the 7 original starting states (Florida, South Carolina, Texas, Mississippi , Alabama, Lousiana and Georgia withouth John Brown's raid after Lincoln's victory? Lincoln as simple poltitian told after the raid it had been a suicidal plan from John Brown and fellows, but this was a catalizator to accelerate the events to the Civil War. Originaly Lincoln and the mild and central republicans wanted to ban the slavery system in the Wild West territories as Kansas and Nebraska and they followed Clay's plan a step by step abolution with money compensation. I think this would have been a about 25 years long process similar time long as the Brasilian's abolution of the slavery system was in 1888!
The John Brown's raid radicalized the Deep South!
@@RecordWestVirginia I am interested in the early life of United States from the Revolution War to the End of the Civil War so the book of Du Bois helped to learn more about that time. Difficult to decide on John Brown without knowing that time. The slavery was a huge breaking point so first the Bleeding Kansas and Harpers Ferry raid were the breaking impulses and John Brown had huge roles in both.
Bleeding Kansas radicalized North, John Brown's raid radicalized South and Harriet Beecher Stowe neutralized France and the United Kingdom, for example Queen Victoria was North sympatitizer against her Prime Minister Palmerston. I think this opinion is a too strong simplification of the events, but some trues could be in them.
You’re wrong. It was his willingness to fight and die, even in the face of impossible odds, that helped to shame less bold white Americans into resisting slavery. The effect his life and death had on history wouldn’t have had nearly the same impact had he just gone to Canada and worked with that community.
Yes, Brown could have done more if he listened to the advice of African Americans and worked with them. Suggesting otherwise is racist as hell.
There is no way to know for sure, how things would have played out if John Brown would have chosen another fight to potentially strike a blow at Slavery. What Dr. Trowbridge is suggesting is that had Brown listened to Black leaders he may have found a way to have just as big of an impact without sacrificing his life. Of course, this is just Dr. Trowbridge's opinion. It's an incredibly informed one as he is an expert on Brown's life and race relations in America, but his opinion none the less. Thanks for watching the episode and for sharing your perspective.