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" are the basis of my plan. God has given the strength of the hills to freedom ; they were placed here for the emancipation of the negro race... "
Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Page 180
by Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1886
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The Life and Letters of John Brown: Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1885 - 684 pages
...stretch away from the borders of New York into the Southern States. ' These mountains,' he said, ' are the basis of my plan. God has given the strength...they were placed here for the emancipation of the uegro race ; they are full of natural forts, where one man for defence will be equal to a hundred for...
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The Life and Letters of John Brown: Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1891 - 698 pages
...stretch away from the borders of New York into the Southern States. ' These mountains,' he s;\id, ' are the basis of my plan. God has given the strength...a. hundred for attack ; they are full also of good hiding-places, where large numbers of brave men could be concealed, and baffle and elnde pursuit for...
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The Life and Letters of John Brown: Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1891 - 688 pages
...stretch away from the borders of New York into the Southern States. ' These mountains,' he said, ' arc the basis of my plan. God has given the strength of...here for the emancipation of the negro race ; they arg full of natural forts, where one man for defence will be equal to a hundred for attack ; they are...
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The National Magazine, Volume 17

1893 - 770 pages
...fugitive slaves !" he had once exclaimed, while at another time he had said, with profound earnestness: " God has given the strength of the hills to freedom....placed here for the emancipation of the negro race." 526 527 Brown was almost six feet in height of slender, wiry build and giving the impression of unusual...
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Frederick Douglass: the Colored Orator

Frederic May Holland - 1891 - 436 pages
...Alleghanies, stretching away from New York into the Southern States. ' These mountains,' he said, ' are the basis of my plan. God has given the strength of these hills to freedom. They were placed here by the Almighty for the emancipation of your race. They...
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Magazine of Western History, Volume 17

1893 - 868 pages
...fugitive slaves !" he had once exclaimed, while at another time he had said, with profound earnestness: " God has given the strength of the hills to freedom....placed here for the emancipation of the negro race." Brown was almost six feet in height of slender, wiry build and giving the impression of unusual strength....
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The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, Volume 29

John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1893 - 608 pages
...slaves ! " he had once exclaimed ; while at another time he had said, with profound earnestness : " God has given the strength of the hills to freedom....placed here for the emancipation of the negro race." Brown was almost six feet in height, of slender, wiry build, and giving the impression of unusual strength....
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The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement

George Spring Merriam - 1906 - 482 pages
...of mountains stretching from the border of New York toward the Gulf. " These mountains," he said, " are the basis of my plan. God has given the strength...they are full of natural forts, where one man for defense will be equal to one hundred for attack; they are full also of good hiding-places, where large...
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John Brown

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - 1909 - 428 pages
...which stretch away from the borders of New York into the Southern states. " 'These mountains,' he said, 'are the basis of my plan. God has given the strength...they are full of natural forts, where one man for defense will be equal to a hundred for attack ; they are full also of good hiding-places, where large...
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The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia

John Brown - 1910 - 686 pages
...away from the borders of New York the Southern States. ' These mountains,' he said, ' are the basis ly plan. God has given the strength of the hills to freedom ; they ,', placed here for the emancipation of the negro race ; they are of natural forts, where one man for...
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