John Brown and Good Lord Bird | Based on a True Story

Good Lord Bird is an awesome show, and I’m surprised it isn’t getting a lot of attention. While no one can deny John Brown was fighting for a noble cause, he absolutely did so ignobly. The man committed atrocities in abolition’s name, but in his long afterlife, much of the public has expunged the brutality and foolishness of his actions from their minds, forming a myth. Brown is more of a symbol than a flesh and blood historical character, and that is precisely what he would’ve wanted. ------------------------------------------------------------ Connected videos: Gold Rush: /watch/AKBL6xymd1WmL sectional crisis: /watch/o0iyLIKA2fFAy second great awakening: /watch/kQ3XqRLHwA0HX unitarians: /watch/Uki8Sdgv8B5v8 limits of film accuracy: /watch/AgXsEgj88kE8s ------------------------------------------------------------ See pinned comment and its replies for references, notes, responses, and errata *Bibliography* *Secondary sources:* Durwood Ball, _Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861_ (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001). https://amzn.to/2m06NLB Stanley Harrold, _Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War_ (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010). https://amzn.to/2xbEKSp David M. Potter, _The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861,_ Reprint (1976; New York: Harper Perennial, 2011). https://amzn.to/3aeYy5q Reggie Ugwu, “How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’?” _New York Times,_ 17 November 2020. https://slate.com/culture/2020/10/good-lord-bird-showtime-accuracy-fact-fiction.html https://slate.com/culture/2020/10/good-lord-bird-frederick-douglass-historical-accuracy.html *Primary sources:* Brown’s last speech: https://ap.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/content-images/05508.051p1.jpg Sources on the trial and investigation of Brown: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/john-browns-body-lesson-primary-sources Brown’s final note: https://www.marxists.org/archive/brown-john/1859/last-note.htm Emerson’s speech: https://www.bartleby.com/90/1111.html Thoreau _Plea for Cpt. John Brown:_ https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2567 Etymology of “peculiar institution”: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2010-November/104924.html Cornerstone speech: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: /user/CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or by purchasing MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian LET'S CONNECT: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/cynicalhistorian Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CynicalHistory/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist leader. A religious man more than anything else,[1][2] Brown believed he was "an instrument of God",[3]:248 raised up to strike the death blow to American slavery, a "sacred obligation".[4][3]:189 Brown felt that violence was necessary to end American slavery, since peaceful efforts had failed.[5][4][3] Brown said repeatedly that in working to free the enslaved he was following the Golden Rule,[6][7] as well as the U.S. Declaration of Independence which stated "all men are created equal".[ ------------------------------------------------------------ Hashtags: #history #JohnBrown

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