On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Had some men made such display of rigid virtue, I should have rejected it, as affected, false and hypocritical, but in John Brown, I felt it to be real as iron or granite.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass reflects on the genuine character and integrity he perceived in John Brown, contrasting it with others.
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