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The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.

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As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

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THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

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And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

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When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.

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This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.

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However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

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That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.

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It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.

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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.

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Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

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I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

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IN all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

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Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.

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John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

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