The responses to John Brown's Raid on Harper Ferry.
John Brown was trying to invade a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in hopes that he would gain support from abolitionists and essentially start a rebellion that would end slavery in the United States.
Many Northern abolitionists saw John Brown as a hero who was trying to get rid of the evil institution of slavery in the United States. Many Southerners, especially ones who owned slaves, saw Brown as a crazy and violent individual who was trying to ruin the Southern way of life.
