AHC: John Brown does better

Ceranthor

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How can we twist things so that John Brown's insurrection has a far greater immediate effect than it did OTL? Historically he only killed a few people and got himself hanged. How can we make his rebellion far more large-scale and successful? Would it help to replace John Brown with someone sane? Could we possibly have several Harper's Ferry raids committed by people like him? I'm studying him in school right now and he's a pretty fascinating figure, so I'm interested in learning more about him and the potential impact he could have had.
 
Weird, I've been thinking abou this lately trying to come up with just such a timeline... But really haven't come up with anything yet. I want his constitution to come into force after a successful slave revolt...
 
The timeline "Our Grey-Eyed Savior" features a John Brown scenario where he touches off a slave revolt that's contained within one city and slowly ground out of existence.

That's better than OTL for him even though he ends up dead at the end of it--apparently the shock of the whole situation, rather than spurring pro-slavery sentiment as OTL did, instead prompts abolition efforts as a means of self-defense.

(I think this provokes more support for TTL's William Walker.)
 
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