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There is no doubt that Brown received enormous financial support from many, some of which may never be known (and never wanted to be). Yet of all financial supporters of John Brown, none contributed more than the infamous Secret Six. The "Six" was a group of rather wealthy or prominent men who, although not openly, supported Brown and the anti-slavery cause to the highest degree. Members of the group were Samuel Girdley Howe, a doctor and well known teacher who was said to be "a man of romantic causes"; Franklin B. Sanbom, a teacher at Concord and later author; Theodore Parker, a Unitarian minister from Boston; Thomas Wentworth Higginson, another Unitarian minister from Massachusetts who said, " the worst trait of the American race seems to me this infernal colorphobia"; Gerrit Smith, a wealthy landowner from New York who felt the U. S. was "in a state of revolution" and said he would "go to all lengths" to support Brown; and finally George Luther Stearns who would become chairman of the Massachusetts-Kansas Aid Committee.

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