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2nd Lieutenant
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- Oct 26, 2012
This letter written by Brown in January 1859 is known as John Brown's Parallels.
He references what is known as the Marais des Cygnes massacre which took place the previous year. 11 free-soilers were captured by a pro-slavery group and marched into a ravine and open fired upon. Five of the men were killed, five were seriously injured, and one escaped unharmed. Brown explains how nothing has been done to the perpetrators. He draws a parallel about how 2 companies who went to Missouri to free slaves. One he oversaw, which freed 10 slaves. The other company, freed a female slave and one slavemaster was killed during the operation. As John brown said, "Now for a comparison, "11 persons are forcibly restored to their natural and inalienable rights, with but one man killed, and all hell is stirred from beneath."
Thus he drawing a parallel about how nothing is being done when free-soilers, who did nothing wrong, are being killed. When 1 slavemaster gets killed in an operation that frees 11 slaves, a huge issue is being made.
He references what is known as the Marais des Cygnes massacre which took place the previous year. 11 free-soilers were captured by a pro-slavery group and marched into a ravine and open fired upon. Five of the men were killed, five were seriously injured, and one escaped unharmed. Brown explains how nothing has been done to the perpetrators. He draws a parallel about how 2 companies who went to Missouri to free slaves. One he oversaw, which freed 10 slaves. The other company, freed a female slave and one slavemaster was killed during the operation. As John brown said, "Now for a comparison, "11 persons are forcibly restored to their natural and inalienable rights, with but one man killed, and all hell is stirred from beneath."
Thus he drawing a parallel about how nothing is being done when free-soilers, who did nothing wrong, are being killed. When 1 slavemaster gets killed in an operation that frees 11 slaves, a huge issue is being made.
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