Why did John Brown lead the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 18592

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to protest the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

to inspire Southern slaveholders to resist abolitionists

to protest the use of militia to defend fugitive slave hunters

to inspire an armed uprising of enslaved African Americans

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Why did John Brown lead the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 18592

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to protest the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

to inspire Southern slaveholders to resist abolitionists

to protest the use of militia to defend fugitive slave hunters

to inspire an armed uprising of enslaved African Americans

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Jack Sims · Answer 1

Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery ... As early as 1848 he was formulating a plan to incite an insurrection.