In 1856, three years before his celebrated raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown<span>, with ... Was he a bloodthirsty zealot, a vigilante, a </span>terrorist, or a madman? ... hero-<span>worshippers who </span>considered<span> Brown a warrior-saint whose assaults on slavery
For Southerners, Brown was the embodiment of all their fears—a white man ... After all, few would consider soldiers in warfare terrorists, yet surely they try to .... During his raid, Brown and his men had captured a number of slave owners in the ...
<h2><em>Herodotus views history as a source of moral lessons, with conflicts and wars as misfortune. Herodotus, preferred moral lessons and drawing conclusions over fact, making him similar to other popular historians of the time. Thucydides uses factual reports of political and military events, based on eye-witness accounts. Thucydides' view of only factual based reports, was uncommon for the time, neither Thucydides or Herodotus, cited sources.</em></h2>
