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<\/a>John Brown and Fredrick Douglass Stereograph card c. 1891, published by Littleton View Co., Littleton, New Hampshire. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Radical Abolitionist Party is perhaps one of the groups that most influenced Brown. It consisted of a group of Black and white abolitionists who came together in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act [4]<\/a>.<\/p>\n This group was a direct descendant of the Liberty Party, which was composed of Frederick Douglass, Jermaine Loguen, James McCune Smith, Gerrit Smith, John Brown, and Lewis Tappan. This short-lived party \u201chad moderate success in the 1840s,\u201d and advocated that the best options for overthrowing slavery were through politics [5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Radical Abolitionist Party took an offensive rather than a defensive stance towards slavery. This party \u201cwas not only concerned with black liberation but also with addressing the needs of oppressed peoples everywhere.\u201d This group believed that moral suasion was no longer an option\u2014instead they \u201copenly embraced the idea of insurrection and the efforts of John Brown\u201d [6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n Indeed, the Radical Political Abolitionists supported Brown\u2019s missions in Kansas and the Harpers Ferry Raid, both through ideological support and funding [7]<\/a>.<\/p>\n This section includes:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”References” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [1]<\/a> Ofari, Earl. \u201cLet Your Motto Be Resistance\u201d: The Life and Thought of Henry Highland Garnet.<\/em> Beacon Press, 1972,\u00a0p. 34<\/p>\n [2]<\/a>\u00a0 Toledo, Gregory. The Hanging Of Old Brown: A Story Of Slaves, Statesmen, And Redemption. <\/em>Praeger, 2002, pp. 74-75.<\/p>\n [3]<\/a> Toledo 75.<\/p>\n [4]<\/a> Jackson, Kellie Carter. Force And Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence. <\/em>U of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, p.87.<\/p>\n\n
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