Born in a free State and unaccustomed to such scenes of cruelty, young Brown's pure and sensitive soul revolted at the shocking spectacle and at that early age he swore eternal hatred to slavery.
Douglass describes how John Brown's early experiences with slavery shaped his lifelong opposition to it.
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His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.
But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.