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and the many that Frederick Douglass himself made.
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Douglass, you'll remember, had great ambivalence about this man
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and chose not to join him on the raid at Harpers Ferry.
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Now, Brown was captured in the raid.
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The raid only lasted 48 hours.
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It was in some ways a military strategic blunder.
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He was taken to a jail four miles from Harpers Ferry,
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Charlestown, virginia,
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now West Virginia,
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and he would reside there for about the next six weeks.
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In that period he would be put on trial,
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the most celebrated trial,