In the worse case, too, if the plan should fail, and John Brown should be driven from the mountains, a new fact would be developed by which the nation would be kept awake to the existence of slavery.
From his autobiography, Douglass considers the potential national awareness that even a failed attempt by John Brown would generate regarding slavery.
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