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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But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.
Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.