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  • SPEECH: Frederick Douglass on John Brown, 1860

    SPEECH: Frederick Douglass on John Brown, 1860

    On December 3rd, 1860, Frederick Douglass was set to address an anti-slavery rally at Boston’s Tremont Temple Baptist Church, held to commemorate the death of the radical abolitionist John Brown and to mark the one-year anniversary of his ill-fated raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry Virgina.