Frederick Douglass: “All who were supposed to have been any way connected with John Brown…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

All who were supposed to have been any way connected with John Brown were to be hunted down and surrendered to the tender mercies of slaveholding and panic-stricken Virginia, and there to be tried after the fashion of John Brown’s trial, and of course to be summarily executed.

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Frederick Douglass

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Editor's note · Context

Douglass recounts the immediate and severe reaction to John Brown's raid, where anyone associated with him faced summary justice in Virginia.

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Frederick Douglass: “All who were supposed to have been any way connected with John Brown were to be hunted down and surrendered to the…”

Editor's note · Context