how is it possible i asked myself this question for many decades how was it possible in this so called christian country that for hundreds of years black men and women and children were held in the most horrible bondage slavery i have no answer for and yet we see the result of that still in the racism in this country in the on equal opportunities between the races in the murder and incarceration of black men and black boys since just so many things we see the result of the original sin of slavery as we found this i will have been on this earth eighty three years and one of my first memories probably maybe as much as three quarters of a century ago is of seeing three very old men being led down a staircase in my grammar school in trenton new jersey it was probably a patriotic celebration attended to the beginning of world war t these men and i saw them with these eyes were veterans of the american civil war there were alive when john brown was hung in eight hundred fifty nine they were alive when the civil war started in eight hundred sixty one and they were alive when slavery was the law of the land in this country and they were alive when the southern states were pressing their congress to extend slavery out into the territories that were still not states in these united states there were many people who protested slavery chief among them was an american farmer by the name of john brown he was a man of great religious faith and all of his life he did what he could to abolish this stain of slavery but it was a certain point in his life he came to the realization that wanting slavery to and praying for slavery to and it was not going to happen so he turned to the mentor of his life jesus christ for guidance and he found it in the statement that jesus made i have come to bring a sword he started to become an activist and he concocted a plan that if in fact he  group of twenty one others raided the federal arsenal at harpers ferry in west virginia it would be a signal to black men to revolt all over the country well it didn't work out that way there was no removal and all of the men were arrested or killed and john brown was tried and hung in the film you will see john brown is brilliantly and passionately played by philip bryce chick it takes place in a few hours before john brown was hanged and he tries to understand what brought him to this point because he could see what was coming horror of the american all i john brown and now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away bus this is a beautiful country i knew all this i could discern the body of my mother sustain the man i would become the man who now will die tomorrow father's and your mother's will someday be free things i do your name no girl boy father my father oliver who gave me life who always said we all are one in god and did that and so l here when when when it come that nothing would assuage nothing great song great love march their flocks in skin a parody of grace that they were more then be more alone what ever reason were it so now gone the journey from that place to kansas missouri that these new places shiloh hands the same you the river the murder the many millions yet enslaved were time of symbols and  of my skin why do you do this why do you make of them meet the human earth in shades whips in ropes around their neck night we went to houses places where the men sang clear slavery would apprise slavery would advance and generations i said them all talk talk talk that will never free the slaves what is needed is action action these man these men in black guarded to where we were surrounded with hostages and their demands  will tomorrow and so it will my neck will break i believe it is for the best so she went from me her to my hands and