John Brown: Cross-Over w/ RevLeft Radio
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Guerrilla History is a cross-over episode with Revolutionary Left Radio, hosted by our cohost Breht O'Shea.
In this episode, we discuss the life, legacy, tactics, and lessons from the legendary John Brown. For background reading on one of the most famous and controversial abolitionists, we recommend starting with W.E.B. Du bois's "John Brown", published in 1909, and David Reynold's "John Brown, Abolitionist", published in 2005.
Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at guerrillahistorypod@gmail.com.
Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.
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To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/msgp-queens, and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio and on Libsyn at https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/, and cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter @Red_Menace_Pod and on Libsyn https://redmenace.libsyn.com/. You can support those two podcasts by visiting by going to patreon and donating to RevLeft Radio and The Red Menace.
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| 0:00.0 | On December 2nd, 1859, a tall, thin, 59-year-old man rode on a wooden box in an open wagon. |
| 0:27.9 | The box was his coffin. |
| 0:30.6 | He was going to his execution. |
| 0:36.3 | He just handed his jailer a note. |
| 0:40.5 | I, John Brown, |
| 0:43.0 | are now quite certain |
| 0:44.2 | that the crimes of this guilty land |
| 0:46.5 | will never be purged away, |
| 0:48.7 | but with blood. |
| 0:51.1 | I had vainly flattered myself |
| 0:52.8 | that without very much bloodshed, it might be done. |
| 1:00.5 | For most of his life, John Brown had been an obscure shepherd and tanner. |
| 1:06.2 | Now, it was a national symbol. |
| 1:11.6 | Brown goes from being a very minor figure in the abolitionist war against slavery to the emblematic figure of that, the defining figure in some ways. |
| 1:26.6 | To abolitionists, John Brown was a hero, a saintly man who killed for his beliefs. |
| 1:34.6 | But others saw him as the embodiment of evil, a murderer, and lunatic. |
| 1:56.8 | John. John Brown was fighting for the American creed, putting into practice the words of Thomas Jefferson, |
| 2:00.6 | that the tree of liberty should be watered with the blood of tyrants. |
| 2:09.6 | Brown carved a canyon in public opinion that split north and south, and no longer were there any ties, Brown had taken his sword and sliced the connections. |
| 2:20.3 | The South rejoiced in the execution. |
| 2:38.1 | But throughout the north, church bells told for him. |
| 2:46.0 | Some 1800 years ago, Christ was crucified. |
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