It did not, as was supposed by many, contemplate a general rising among the slaves, and a general slaughter of the slave masters (an insurrection he thought would only defeat the object), but it did contemplate the creating of an armed force which should act in the very heart of the South.
Douglass clarifies that Brown's plan did not involve a violent uprising but rather the formation of an armed force in the South.
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