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  1. Most of the slaves didn't even show up, and John Brown had a weak army of slaves and blacks. Thy were armed, but whites overpowered and killed and or captured blacks and killed them later.

The contingent that caught them in the armory was led by Robert E Lee and Jeb Stuart.

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