Frederick Douglass: “Of his army of nineteen her conscience made an army of nineteen…”

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Of his army of nineteen her conscience made an army of nineteen hundred.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass illustrates how John Brown's actions empowered the enslaved and transformed their potential for resistance.

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