1850 American Gold Tycoon

Chapter 592: Stab in the nest

John Brown was a flag bearer and his popularity among abolitionists was high.

Less than a month after John Brown returned to Kansas, he once again gathered an army of 76 men.

These people were veteran soldiers with rich combat experience and faith who had participated in the Civil War in Kansas for many years.

John Brown brought these old guys to St. Louis for repairs. After a short period of repairs, these low-level abolitionists, who were dressed simply and even in some tatters, boarded the train to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania without hesitation.

Pinkerton took off his scarf and looked at the retreating figures, filled with emotion in his heart.

The factory owners in the north stood on the moral high ground and rightly said that they wanted to liberate the black slaves in the south because they needed more labor force, not because of their high moral standards.

Pinkerton lived and worked in the North for a long time in his early years and met the so-called freed black escaped slaves in the South.

Yes, they were free, but apart from freedom, these black escaped slaves had nothing.

In order to earn meager wages to support themselves, black people who fled to the north had to work in factories where the working conditions were worse than those on southern plantations, and the working hours were no less intense than those on southern plantations. The factory became their new plantation.

Furthermore, the discrimination and prejudice against black people in the North is no better than in the South. Black people still faced discrimination in the North.

Most northerners clamored to support the abolition of slavery in the South and grant freedom to blacks.

But many northerners were not happy to have them as neighbors with black people.

Pinkerton has worked and lived in the north for a long time, also visited the south, and now settled in the west.

In terms of racial problems throughout the United States, Pinkerton believed that only the West had the least racial problems.

In the West, Chinese, Yankees, Dixies, naturalized Indians, Mexicans, and people from other countries could live in harmony.

The Chinese, who have an overwhelming population advantage in the west, will not deliberately suppress and exclude other ethnic groups, let alone engage in racial persecution.

This is also the reason why more and more people, including people from the eastern United States, choose to settle in the West.

The train to Pittsburgh blasted its whistle, then reached Pinkerton's ears the whine of the train starting. The train started slowly and headed eastward with billowing black smoke.

"farewell."

Pinkerton raised a bottle of wine and drank it in one gulp. Finally, I bid farewell to this group of people at the bottom who really want to liberate the black people in the South.

On the way to Pittsburgh, John Brown continued to promote his abolitionist ideas to the passengers on the train. Many third-class passengers were deeply moved, and some even joined John Brown.

When he got off the bus in Pittsburgh, John Brown had assembled a team of more than 120 people.

Finally, John Brown used the remaining gold to purchase six small boats in the town of Hancock, Maryland, and recruited more than ninety men. Forming a team of more than two hundred people, they took six small boats and traveled south from the Potomac River at night to Harbors Ferry, Virginia.

John Brown chose Harbors Ferry as his target because Harbors Ferry was located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. It is a key transportation hub in Virginia. Southern slaveholders had an armory in Harpers Ferry.

John Brown's idea was to capture Harbors Ferry Ferry and the armory located at the ferry, and then raise the flag and raise a cry. The slaves in the South would surely respond and gather here.

Then John Brown could open the armory at Harpers Ferry, and the black slaves who responded with arms would continue to march south, liberating more slaves along the way, constantly expanding the size of the team, and even capturing the nests of southern slave owners. Richmond, and in turn freed slaves in all southern slave states.

"Father, in another hour, we will arrive at Habers Ferry." John Brown's third son, Brown Jr., had scouted Habers Ferry a week ago. The landscape along this route It has already been engraved in Little Brown's mind.

Even at night, Little Brown estimated the time it would take to get from here to Harpers Ferry.

Influenced by their family environment, John Brown's three sons were all radical and fanatical abolitionists, and they joined John Brown's gamble without hesitation.

"Guys! In one hour! We are about to officially go to war with those Dixie guys in the South! History will always remember this day and will always remember us!" John Brown said impassionedly to his old buddies and new friends. The guys made their final mobilization.

"Free land, free people! Fight for freedom and justice!"

John Brown's guys echoed John Brown's slogan: "Free land, free people! Fight for liberty and justice!"

John Brown's team went surprisingly smoothly, perhaps because it was at night, or perhaps because the slave owners in the South never thought that the group of sissies from the North would dare to go straight to Virginia and stab their nests directly. Be on guard.

John Brown's fleet, a team of more than 200 people, sailed on the Potomac River swaggering down the river and directly approached Harpers Ferry Ferry. There was no encounter with any southern armed forces on the way, let alone a direct exchange of fire.

All this went so smoothly that even John Brown himself found it unbelievable.

Until they boarded Harpers Ferry, no one intercepted and questioned such a large team.

There are only three sentries on duty at Harpers Ferry crossing.

John Brown's third son, with a few men, captured the three sentries on guard at the ferry without even firing a shot.

The three sentries didn't realize what happened until they were captured. They just let the other party tie them up in confusion with questions on their faces.

John Brown was so confused that he took control of Harpers Ferry without a fight, and then in less than an hour, he expanded his victory, occupying the local railway station and telegraph office, and directly cutting off the local The telegraph line cut off Harpers Ferry's connection with the outside world.

Up to this moment, John Brown's troops had not fired a shot.

Achieving such a significant result without firing a shot deeply inspired the entire team and raised their morale.

John Brown and his three sons were also very optimistic. They believed that as long as they captured the armory at Harpers Ferry, great things would happen!

Harpers Ferry's armory stocked tens of thousands of rifles, nearly a hundred cannons, and countless ammunition.

These weapons are enough for them to arm a team of tens of thousands of people and liberate the slaves in the southern slave states of the United States just like Spartacus liberated the slaves of the Roman Empire!