Kickstarting the US Civil War - The Sharps Carbine and John Brown

This is a companion video in collaboration with @AtunSheiFilms, this video being the prequel to John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, which you can find here: InRange exists only because of support from viewers like you: The Sharps carbine was a very advanced firearm design for the 1850's, and it was for that reason that John Brown and the Abolitionists adopted it. In this video we discuss the history of the firearm, its design, how to use it, but also how and why it is so intertwined with the abolitionist cause in the years leading up to the US Civil War and the war itself.