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“In the heated atmosphere after the Lincoln assassination, quite a few northerners compared Lee to the infamous John Brown, the abolitionist who was captured, tried, and hanged for the Harper's Ferry raid in 1859. Brown had been found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia after a jury deliberated for only forty-five minutes...Coincidentally, it had been Colonel Robert E. Lee of the US Army that eventually put down John Brown's short-lived rebellion at Harper's Ferry.”

Robert E Lee John Brown Harper S Ferry

Book:The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon

Source: The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon

“Now he was as lost as the rest of us, and didn't know his way out of the particular patch of woods and that homestead any more than a bird knows his way out of a privy with the door closed, but he was the leader, and he had found what he wanted.”

Slavery Kansas John Brown Harper S Ferry

Book:The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

Source: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

“You can play one part in life, but you can't be that thing. You just playing it. You're not real.”

Slavery Insurrection John Brown Harriet Tubman Frederick Douglass Harper S Ferry

Author:James McBride