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Summary: America's Road to War: John Brown makes the decision to raid the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA. In doing so he becomes the martyr that the anti-slavery cause has been looking for. The country becomes engulfed in controversy in the aftermath of the raid by John Brown and his men, all the debate is centered around one central root cause: slavery in America.