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Blood Allies - The Honest Telling of John Brown
I could live for the slave, but he could die for him." — Frederick Douglass
One white man descended the gallows on December 2, 1859, with more clarity than most men carry in a lifetime. His name was John Brown.
Most history remembers him as a fanatic who raided Harpers Ferry and failed. The record says something else.
In May 1858, 46 delegates met in Chatham, Ontario — 34 Black, 12 white. They debated and amended a 48-article Provisional Constitution for the free Black nation Brown planned to build in the Appalachian mountains. Osborne Anderson voted for it. Then he fought for it. Then he…
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