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The abolitionist John Brown was born #OnThisDay in 1800. His deeply religious parents believed the US was God's vehicle for the return of Christ to the earth, but that the Second Coming was being prevented by the abominable evil of slavery. https://t.co/Rxnuiy5FMv
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“Beecher’s John Brown was a random ‘burning fragment’; Lincoln’s was a solitary assassin; Thoreau called him the representative Christ of his time.” https://t.co/Ek7h7IsoEL
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“Emerson has said: ‘The time will come when John Brown will have made the gallows as glorious as Jesus Christ made the cross.’” https://t.co/YpvxMJ7UzH