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John Brown, a genuine, radical,
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deeply religious old testament abolitionist
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who went to kansas, make no mistake,
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to make kansas free
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and to kill slaveholders if necessary,
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in what he believed was a justifiable war.
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That spring, John Brown with his band of men
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was traveling along the road when he got news
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of the beating of Charles Sumner in the senate.
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What happened in the senate is that Charles Sumner,
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The radical abolitionist senator from massachusetts,
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One of only a tiny handful-- actually one of only two or three,