Frederick Douglass: “It must be admitted that Brown assumed tremendous responsibility in…”

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It must be admitted that Brown assumed tremendous responsibility in making war upon the peaceful people of Harper's Ferry, but it must be remembered also that in his eye a slave-holding community could not be peaceable, but was, in the nature of the case, in one incessant state of war.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass reflects on the moral implications of John Brown's actions against slavery.

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Frederick Douglass: “It must be admitted that Brown assumed tremendous responsibility in making war upon the peaceful people of Harper's…”

Editor's note · Context