John Brown decide to infatuate Harper’s Ferry since it had the most weapons so he could end slavery but he didn’t think everything through properly. He did not plan out everything clearly which gave him many problems along the way. Many would say that John Brown’s raid was successful since they did infatuated Harper’s Ferry but they were not successful with all of the trouble they had along the way. Not only did Brown not have enough men, not enough money but also not enough weapons.
John Brown had a hard time recruiting men over the years. He only had twenty one men when he took over Harper’s Ferry. Men started to notice Brown in 1855 when he moved to Kansas with his kids. He joined to fight against the proslavery after settling with his family. He…show more content… He had twenty men, four being his own sons. (Horwitz, p.45) He led them against the Pro-Slavery Missourians that tried to takeover free-state of Lawrence, Kansas. They then created Pottawatomie Rifles, went to fight against the threat that was created by Alabama major Jefferson Buford on Lawrence in April 1856. They were to late though, the city was looted and burned. Since the city was burned down Brown was furious and decided something needed to be done. Out of the men part of Pottawatomie Rifles, he recruited two men plus four of his sons and a son-in-law for the killings at Pottawatomie creek, murders of five men who were proslavery settlers. (Foner, p.392) Not even ten days later Brown struck again, The battle of Black Jack After an attack was on Osawatomie where Brown had family. Brown decide it was time to take this war to “Africa.” Africa was Browns name for slaveholding South. He started to recruit than when decided he was going after the U.S armory at Harper’s Ferry in Virginia. He had nine recruits from his trip to Tabor in 1857. Later in 1858 Brown returned from New York he seeked more volunteers. He was appointed Commander in Chief than traveled to Canada to enlist
