John Brown's Goals
Their immediate objective was the capture of the cache of weapons stored at the U.S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Brown's ultimate goal was to destroy the slave system of the South. The arms From a contemporary photograph captured by the raid would allow
Brown and his followers to establish a stronghold in the near-by mountains from which they could attack slaveholders and draw liberated slaves into their ranks. Brown wanted to destroy the slave holders and all of their family and free the poor mis-treated slaves who needed to be saved.
Brown and his followers to establish a stronghold in the near-by mountains from which they could attack slaveholders and draw liberated slaves into their ranks. Brown wanted to destroy the slave holders and all of their family and free the poor mis-treated slaves who needed to be saved.