John Brown's Body (1859)
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Is John Brown a Domestic Terrorist or a Maniac?
John Brown has often been portrayed as like a Christ like figure but he wasn't necessarily that religious of a person. I think the religion the spiritual fire inside John Brown starting as early as the 1830s was this idea that he could play a pivotal role in ending slavery in the United States and that becomes his life's mission.
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