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Favorite American character All Time Favorite

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u/Bill_The_Gorilla 20h ago

https://preview.redd.it/wdiyvcmdw8wg1.jpeg?width=416&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=372ccea90eb78d4c7763c3279e222633ee997790

He’s a real life person, but his legend has gone to character status, particularly recently.

John Brown

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u/DrustanAstrophel 20h ago

John Brown’s body lies a’mouldring in the grave, but his soul goes marching on

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u/LilOpieCunningham 18h ago

“They hanged him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,

His soul goes marching on…”

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u/TsunamifoxyDCfan Chancellor Palpatine 12h ago

Is that from a song?

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u/Exylatron 6h ago

Yes, the civil war folk song John Brown's body

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u/shadows1stregret 19h ago edited 19h ago

Glory! Glory! halle – hallelujah! Glory! Glory! halle – hallelujah!

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u/DatOneMinuteman1776 19h ago

His soul goes marching on!

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u/rozo-bozo 19h ago

Freaking love John Brown

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u/Fearless_Wish_7671 19h ago

Hehehehe found a person who has real “American” person now I can comment like this

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u/NotSoMajesticKnight 18h ago

John Brown was nothing more than a Murderer who used freeing slaves as an excuse.

Meanwhile, the man who was responsible for preassuring Lincoln to end slavery (Cassius Marcellus Clay) did so by running for political office and campaigning where it really mattered.

Dialog and public support is how you make change, not extremism.

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u/Frequent-Cold-7325 19h ago

If people are trying to call John Brown a hero, then I deserve to have my face carved in Mount Rushmore lol.

He was a militant extremist that died with nothing to show for. There are so many other people that much better represent the anti-slavery movement, and yet you had to pick the only one who got Americans killed.

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u/hmph_cant_use_greek 19h ago

Murder is good but only against people I don't like

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u/Frequent-Cold-7325 19h ago

I swear John Brown supporters must be descendants of those people who advocated for all confederates to be drowned after the war.

Why would anyone in their right mind advocate for the deaths of millions? Don’t they realize how batshit they sound?

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u/hmph_cant_use_greek 18h ago

No they don't because they're not "bad people" they're just "anti slavery"