After completing the assigned readings, media clip, and PowerPoint lectures for this Module, draft your 500-word Discussion Board essay in response to the below query.  Moreover, when drafting your response, remember that you are required to use and reference specific details from the Module’s assigned readings (chapter 9), media clips, and/or PowerPoint lectures to support the points you make in your essay.  Moreover, you will need to draft a separate brief reply to the essay of at least two of your classmates. 

Essay #2 Discussion Board Query:   Historians have long debated about whether John Brown was a vistionary or just a fanatic? What are some of the merits of each side of the debate and why do you suppose so few southern slaves joined in his rebellion at Harper’s Ferry?

When submitting your response to this and other Discussion Board queries start a new thread.  (You will not be able to read or reply to your classmates’ essays until you submit your own essay.)  Then, type your essay directly into the text box provided.  Or, you may copy-and-paste text into the text box from an outside MS Word document.  However, DO NOT attach your essay as a separate file.  That is unnecessary and sometimes makes it more difficult for me and for others to read your posts.

John Brown’s convictions about subjugation and exercises to annihilate it barely addressed the standard of northern culture in the years paving the way to the Civil War. It somewhat one of a kind man, be