[Bratch]

John Brown

Radical Abolitionist
1800-1859

John Brown (Courtesy Library of Congress)

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land

can never be purged away but with blood. I had as I now think, vainly
flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done."

[OneWingedShark]

Interesting quote — and yet, on the subject of slavery, it certainly didn’t require a bloody civil war... just read up on William Wilberforce.