//The Good Lord Bird and the Problem with Filtering John Brown's Message Through Comedy

The Good Lord Bird and the Problem with Filtering John Brown's Message Through Comedy

The defining moment of John Brown’s life came when he decided, relatively early, that the only solution to the institution of slavery in the United States—the only way to abolish it—was through violence. He has been painted in the intervening years by some (primarily southern historians, as Jacob Oller noted