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There were about a dozen less defended arsenals south of the Mason Dixon line in the pre civil war years and it would be logical to foment a slave revolution in the deep south rather than Harper's Ferry. Did Brown think he could organize a slave revolution when nobody knew about it or cared on the border of northern Virginia and Maryland? Was it a suicide mission to make a political statement? If that's the case it worked fine.