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To say he is a homicidal maniac misses the point. He is someone who could not live with 4 million people in bondage and had to do
Monday, Oct. 19, 2009

Open quoteTo say he is a homicidal maniac misses the point. He is someone who could not live with 4 million people in bondage and had to do something about it.Close quote

  • KERRY ALTENBERND,
  • a law librarian from Lawrence, Kans., on radical abolitionist John Brown, 150 years after he launched the raid that kindled the Civil War
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