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The anti slavery abolitionists were a radical group that had labored long and hard for the end of slavery in the United States. One such radical was John Brown.

Brown was sure he could create a slave uprising in Virginia. He tried to recruit Afro American scholar Frederick Douglas into the scheme without success.

Brown's plan was to capture the Federal Arsenal at Harper's Ferry and he and his 22 recruits would scatter about the slave plantations and urge them to join a revolt. Brown had indeed captured the arsenal and its weapons, however, no slave insurrection ensued and Brown was captured and later executed.

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