“The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.”
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The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
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When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
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In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
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The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.
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THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
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