>>17893534
John Brown was actually mentally ill, that's probably not the person you should prop up as a legitimate political spokesperson for blacks.

All the insane radicals that liked blacks were actually insane and were only pawns

>Here you literally contradict yourself.
When the war of 1812 broke out the rural parts of new england went batshit insane due to the collapse of the economy. Of course, northerners probably initiated a massive credit crunch and drained the frontier of credit. The north used this hatred and twisted it to be hatred of the south
>well you see, you're only suffering because of the south, not because we took all your money!
Out of this large group of disgruntled people you had religious fanatics creating new religions and practices, like mormonism. What you also had was an extremely small subset >1% of uneducated religious leaders that created cults around black people. The people that started the actual cults worshiping blacks became powerful enough to influence the daughter of a prominent midwestern religious leader and after he died they gained control of his megaphone