John Brown carried out a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry,Virginia in order to
A) show his resistance to slavery.
B) show his solidarity with local slaves.
C) spark a slave revolt among the local slaves.
D) avenge the deaths of several anti-slavery people in Lawrence, Kansas.
E) seize ammunition held at the federal arsenal there so that he could return to Kansas and lead a slave revolt.
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