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title: "How did John Brown's raid change the public perception of himself and the abolitionist cause?"  
description: "How did John Brown's raid change the public perception of himself and the abolitionist cause?"  
author: "Ward ryan"  
published: 2018-04-24  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41516/how-did-john-brown-s-raid-change-the-public-perception-of-himself-and-the-abolitionist-cause  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How did John Brown's raid change the public perception of himself and the abolitionist cause?

How did [John Brown](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40449/what-was-john-brown-s-role-in-the-violence-that-led-to-bleeding-kansas)'s [raid](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/559/raid-and-refs-in-windows-8) change the [public](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/757/why-main-in-java-is-declared-as-public-static-void-main) [perception](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/300933/what-is-perception-in-psychology) of himself and the [abolitionist cause](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41673/how-did-john-brown-effect-the-abolitionist-cause)?


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