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Who Is John Brown A Misguided Fanatic
Abraham Lincoln called John Brown a misguided fanatic! John Brown was not a misguided fanatic. John Brown tried his best to save the slaves from all the hard work and bring them to freedom, he just wanted slavery to end. Brown took a vow to end slavery when he found out that an abolitionist newspaperman was killed. He didn’t want anyone to harm the slaves, so he had a plan to save the slaves, he had a meeting with Frederick Douglass about the plan to save the slaves, so things wouldn't get out of hand, but Douglass opposed to his plan, Brown’s plan was to take over Harper’s Ferry, because Douglass knew that his plan would have failed and have also led to many black deaths, he thought that Brown would’ve hurt the abolition movement by causing

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