They also revelled in the idea of murdering civilians, including women and children, in the name of unleashing freed slaves upon the South The delight of William Lloyd Garrison after Turner's Rebellion, and love of types like Thoreau for John Brown--after Brown tried to murder white families all over Virginia by turning the Old Dominion into a Haitian-style hellhole--did much to harden Southern opinion against the North By and large, the bloodthirsty abolitionists were far more savage than the slave owners they wanted to murder, particularly those in Virginia Most of them were descendants of the radical Puritans, and were members of the Unitarian Church, which grew out of the Puritan Church, by the time of the War of Northern Aggression. Or they were socialist 48ers imported from Germany