It is clear that John Brown acted in ways that other people, even those who felt just as strongly about abolition as he did, would not have done. As heroic as come of his actions were, many of them are considered irrational even today. The unique and strange character of John Brown was the result of many things. Perhaps the most important of those are his parents characteristics, his childhood and his early adult life.

Things that happened in the early adult life of John Brown could also have led him to act recklessly. His first wife died giving birth to his seventh child. He remarried and had thirteen more children. Many of them died. The losses probably made him very depressed, which, each time it happens to someone who is mentally ill, might cause that person to become even less rational. Also, John Brown was never successful in business. He even went bankrupt. Having suffered such losses could have convinced him that he had nothing else to lose

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