Why was John Brown's raid on harpers ferry a failure

Even though he successfully communicated the uprising that the conflict of slavery brought up, all he caused was violence. What he should have done is spoken with the townspeople of Harper`s Ferry to try and free the slaves, instead of causing a war and many casualties.

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the speaker of which statement would be best served by joining an interest group?

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(b) britain had a much larger navy than the u.s.

(d) the u.s. had a small army compared to britain.