. >> at an event at the atlantic history museum historian liana keith discussed the origins of the republicanparty . here's a portion of the program . >> so first they believed campus should be a priest state and they were willing to organize themselves and innocence, they were willing to take up arms as necessary to defend the idea of a three camp and campus went to resist the slave act operation in the north and in the west. to organize these committees to solve courthouses with battering rams to rescue people caught up in what they saw as an unjust system, to be a radical, to be a john brown in the 1850s and the republican party was home to a number of people, radical factions who were deeply engaged with john brown as conspirators, as fundraisers and it's notalways a secret six , brown bought a lot of rank-and-file republicans to make donations, who argued and apotheosis radical heroes, and brown had been executed as a traitor. to be a radical, to lean into that idea and when shortly afterharpers ferry was taken down , to be a radical republican meant to be in favor of a hard war, to be i