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and then all the way to Detroit.
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And on the 12th of March, 1859,
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there was a remarkable scene on the Detroit River
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as John Brown ushered these eleven freed slaves from Missouri
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across the river into Canada.
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But at this point there was a twelfth.
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A baby had been born in the boxcar
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and its mother had named him John Brown Daniels.
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So, lest we think this guy was only a lunatic--
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this was the real thing, he'd freed some slaves,
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and he had carted them all across the northern states,
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in the dead of winter, to their freedom.