Had the Supreme court freed Scott and John Brown was either talked out of his gesture or died in Kansas would the Civil War have been postponed or prevented?
Dredd Scott going the other way would have put a hard limit on slavery, completely prohibiting it from moving north. I suspect that that victory for the abolitionists would have had some interesting repercussions. For one thing, it might have looked like enough progress that John Brown's backers might have been less willing to back him.
But John Brown was, IMVHO, a fanatic, and would be very hard to talk out of anything... (To me, he was the right nutcase at the right time...)
Nah, he was a crazy guy.I would argue John brown is the only sane man in America at that moment. Slavery was monstrous and should have been overthrown by any and all means possible.
Had the Supreme court freed Scott and John Brown was either talked out of his gesture or died in Kansas would the Civil War have been postponed or prevented?
I would argue John brown is the only sane man in America at that moment. Slavery was monstrous and should have been overthrown by any and all means possible.
And getting a few hundred slaves mown down in an abortive revolt would have promoted that aim?
God help me for sounding so trite, but better to die a free man than live a slave.
Besides that, revolts, successful or otherwise, keep slavery and abolitionism in the public eye and pressures society to address it.