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John Brown: Terrorist, Hero or Terrorist Hero?

Behind the Bastards

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Nat Turner's Uprising

Before net Turner, most abolitionists supported a slow piecemeal emancipation of enslaved blacks and sought to basically ship them to Africa or the Caribbean. William Lloyd Garrison's prose could a new and utterly uncompromising tone that fit in well with the era ignited by net Turner. The fat from Turner's body was rendered into wagon wheel grease and his skin was tanned and sent off to the families of the people killed as a souvenir. This would have been a great time for an ad transition.

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