John Brown statue at John Brown’s Farm near Lake Placid, NY (photo credit: me!)

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   “not Carolina but Virginia, not Fort Sumter, but Harper's Ferry ... not Major Anderson, but John Brown began the war that ended American slavery .... Until the blow was struck the prospect for freedom was dim, shadowy, and uncertain”
   — Frederick Douglass
   #otd #history