Beyond coordinating and carrying out armed responses, Brown and his family served as pillars of support for moral and radical action in a movement fueled by reformism and racism. Brown toured the country on speaking tours raising money for arms and other supplies to defend abolitionists, the anti-slavery settlers in Kansas and to go on the offensive. Moving to Kansas to help the abolitionist struggle there, John Brown helped lead the challenge to the more restrained abolitionists who thought appeals to Congress and slave-owners, using the racist platform that slavery should be abolished because it hurt white labor.