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- GLC#
- GLC07590
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1859/11/20
- Author/Creator
- Doyle, Mahala, fl. 1859
- Title
- to John Brown
- Place Written
- Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 2 p. : env. Height: 24.8 cm, Width: 19.6 cm
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- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson Slavery & Anti-slavery
By the widow and mother of three men killed by Brown in the Pottawatomie massacre: "My son John whose life I begged of [you] is grown up and is very desirous to be at Charlestown on the day of your execution, would certainly be there if his means would permit it, that he might adjust the rope around your neck."Published in the Liberator, 16 December 1859. Also quoted in Robert Penn Warren's John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (1929).
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