Monday, December 31, 2018

Journal of Amos A. Lawrence, October 18, 1859

The telegraph gives an account of an attempt at insurrection among the negroes at Harper's Ferry under the head of my Kansas acquaintance, “Old Captain John Brown of Osawatomie.” The old man has become a desperate abolitionist, and hates the slaveholders the more because he believes that they are responsible as a class for the death of one of his sons and the imprisonment and insanity of another.

SOURCE: William Lawrence, Life of Amos A. Lawrence: With Extracts from His Diary and Correspondence, p. 131

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