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out of Rochester, New York,
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across Lake Erie into Canada
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and out the St. Lawrence River to England,
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because of fear of his arrest.
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And there was a warrant put out for Frederick Douglass's arrest
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and a federal marshal arrived in Rochester, New York
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only about a day after Douglass left town.
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Intellectuals and poets and writers in the press,
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Thoreau and Whittier and Emerson,
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all over the North, and in England, and in France,
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began to try their hand
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at the meaning of John Brown as Christian hero,