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Explain why Brown's raids were so controversial in the US in the late 1850's.

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to free slaves As a response to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act Brown founded the League of Gileadites, a militant group to prevent the capture of fugitive slaves. The Harper’s Ferry raid His radicalization led him to a plan to recruit an army of 50 to 100 guerrilla fighters to attack slaveholders in Virginia and Maryland.

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