["Face it, history proves that the only way the South was *ever* going to give up Slavery was at the point of a gun after a long war.

So John Brown and Co. might have been misguided by scope or strategy, but they were entirely correct on principle.

At that point, its hard to argue that if they had successfully triggered a civil war earlier, that it would have been somehow WORSE than the civil war for happening sooner."]

No it fucking wouldn't have you ignorant fuck

Harper's ferry going as planned would have resulted in the extermination of the US slave population by the Federal Army. Harper Ferry was a Federal Arsenal. So yeah congratulations slavery is done, but only because they're all dead. You want to find out what happens when a slave revolt sucessfully happens its not freedom its the government going in and decimating the slaves with superiro weapons and manpower

Spartacus's revolting slaves were crucified by the romans, haiti came at the end of French cannons. Worse still you hair brained idgetry will result in the army being used to hunt down abolitionists. On the plus side congratulations the army is getting a budget bump and their is an increase in federal power.