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Writing from somewhere "near" Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she was staying with Lucretia Mott while her husband awaited execution for the Harpers Ferry raid, Mary Brown informed her children that their father wrote "very comforting letters" and of course was secure in his faith. Mrs. Brown wrote of the sympathy that was directed her way and of the belief that their sacrifice would yet do much "for the poor slave." Mrs. Brown expresses her own very articulate anitslavery views (slavery, "the greatest sin that ever rested on our nation") and had been uplifted by the opportunity to hear several "antislavery sermons."
Creator: Brown, Mary Ann Day, 1816-1884
Date: November 28, 1859
Item Number: 4881
Call Number: John Brown Coll. #299 Box 1 Folder 32
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 4881
Collections - Manuscript - Brown, John
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition - Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - African Americans - Slavery
People - Notable People - Brown, John, 1800-1859
People - Women
Places - Other States - Pennsylvania
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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