{"id":424,"date":"2009-09-25T11:50:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:52:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:52:58","slug":"john-brown%e2%80%99s-day-of-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/09\/25\/john-brown%e2%80%99s-day-of-reckoning\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;John Brown\u2019s Day of Reckoning&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-423\" title=\"HD_brownJ1c\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/09\/HD_brownJ1c2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"HD_brownJ1c\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The <em>Smithsonian<\/em> recently published \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/Day-of-Reckoning.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Brown\u2019s Day of Reckoning<\/a>,\u201d an interesting article by Fergus Bordewich that discusses Brown\u2019s attack on Harpers Ferry. While the raid took place 150 years ago, Bordewich observes that Brown \u201cremains one of the most emotive touchstones of our racial history.\u201d In addition, both the attack and Brown\u2019s execution in early December 1859 greatly increased sectional tensions and pushed the country closer to war.\u00a0 \u201cAfter [Harpers Ferry] the chasm [between the North and the South] appeared unbridgeable,\u201d as Bordewich explains. While Brown did not free any slaves, Bordewich argues that his actions created the political conditions that gave Abraham Lincoln the opportunity to win the 1860 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian recently published \u201cJohn Brown\u2019s Day of Reckoning,\u201d an interesting article by Fergus Bordewich that discusses Brown\u2019s attack on Harpers Ferry. While the raid took place 150 years ago, Bordewich observes that Brown \u201cremains one of the most emotive touchstones of our racial history.\u201d In addition, both the attack and Brown\u2019s execution in early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,174],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-recent-scholarship","tag-slavery-abolition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/2022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}