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Letter from E. B. [a Quaker] to John Brown and his reply
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[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]
Ten days after the raid at Harpers Ferry, a Quaker woman named E. B. wrote to John Brown in jail to comfort him and assure him that "Posterity will do thee justice." In his reply, Brown accepted responsibility for the failed attack and asked E. B. to have sympathy for his family.