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Seven corpses of John Brown's soldiers, killed during the 1859 raid, were relocated from an unmarked grave in Harpers Ferry and reburied on Brown's farm in North Elba, New York
Are you willing to die for a cause? John Brown’s soldiers were and did.Their mission? Liberating enslaved Blacks. Their method? Guerilla warfare in the pro-slavery South. Their mantra? “[We] are waring [sic] with Slavery,” wrote Brown’s young...
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