in-class #2 -- John Brown's Holy War (video study guide)
1. WHAT EVENT AT AGE 12 FIRST IGNITED BROWN'S HATRED OF SLAVERY?
2. BROWN'S HATRED OF SLAVERY WAS GUIDED BY THE DEVOUT CHRISTIANITY OF HIS FAMILY. HOW DID THIS INFLUENCE HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD SLAVERY?
3. HOW DID BROWN DISCIPLINE HIS SON? IN WHAT WAY WAS THIS PUNISHMENT UNUSUAL?
4. DESPITE THE SEVERITY OF THE PUNISHMENTS HE GAVE HIS CHILDREN, AS IN MANY OTHER ASPECTS OF HIS PERSONALITY, BROWN WAS A PARADOX -- HE OFTEN EXHIBITED GENTLENESS. WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE?
5. WHAT DANGEROUS, BUT POSITIVE STEP, DID BROWN TAKE TO DEMONSTRATE HIS COMMITMENT TO HELPING SLAVES?
6.HOW DID BROWN REACT TO THE MURDER BY PRO-SLAVERY MEN OF ABOLITIONIST NEWSPAPER EDITOR ELIJAH LOVEJOY (WHO GREW UP IN PORTLAND, MAINE)?
7. USING THE DEFINITION OF TERRORISM ON YOUR HANDOUT, WAS BROWN'S KILLING OF SEVERAL PRO-SLAVERY MEN IN KANSAS "TERRORISM"? EXPLAIN.