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![]() He helped abolitionist Gerritt Smith establish a community for African Americans in the Adirondack Mountains. ![]() He was among the least racist of abolitionists. The biblical passage that best summed up his religious ideas is "…without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin" (Hebrews 9:22). What do we know about John Brown? He worshipped an angry, vengeful God. ![]() ![]() Was he the very model of a committed activist for social justice, or was he the forebear of Timothy McVeigh and the militant anti-abortionists? A martyr, a color-blind egalitarian, a model of courage and self-sacrifice, a singular example of sanity in a nation awash with racism.
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