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the great abolitionist who wept uncontrollably
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when he heard a small black children's choir
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sing John Brown's Body.
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And the very night of that ceremony,
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which was the 14th of April,
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they held a banquet of a sort in a building
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that had a roof on it.
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Back in Charleston, and that was the very night,
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of course, that Lincoln was assassinated
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at Ford's Theater in Washington.
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But the black folks of Charleston
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had planned one more ceremony.