Often overlooked, wealthy industrialists funded John Brown’s murder raid. When exposed, they were protected from extradition by sanctuary northern states.
This violation of the Constitution helped the South to realize that the North intended to openly break the compact, deny the South the benefit of the bargain, and continue to violently attack the South in addition to imposition of confiscatory taxation.
Which wealthy industrialists funded John Brown’s raid?
Details please.
The Boston Transcendentalists, the 19th Century’s Hollywood elite, were just as involved in funding John Brown as any of the industrialists.
The idea that they were protected after being exposed isn’t all that accurate. They were terrified of being prosecuted. Some of them left the country one step ahead of the law. One had himself committed to an asylum. Slavery was despised in the North, but so were abolitionists, who were widely considered to be extremists.