Brown's God

I enjoy the solid words of Hinton Rowan Helper BCOF page 199:

"Slavery lies at the root of all the shame, poverty, ignorance, tyranny and imbecility of the South."

"Slavery is hostile to general education."

Pleading for whites to use their votes to overthrow this system of slavery he, referring to the South, states they "welter in the cesspool of ignorance and degradation."

I also find interesting the point of view of "John Brown's God" McPherson BCOF says that, "Brown's God was the Jehovah who drowned Pharoah's mercenaries in the Red Sea; his Jesus was the angry man who drove moneychangers from the temple. 'Without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.' Bondage was 'a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable war.'