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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.
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To the extent he had a messianic image,
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and a sense of himself as a Moses--actually,
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his greatest hero was Oliver Cromwell.
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If you know anything about the English Civil War
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and the Puritan armies, it makes sense; it was based on something.
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Now, i only have a few minutes.
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The raid on Harpers Ferry would've actually happened a bit earlier,