John Brown, an Ohio abolitionist, commanding a band of about twenty fellow foes of slavery, conducts a midnight raid into Vernon County, Missouri, freeing 11 slaves, including a nine-months pregnant woman.
Postscript: Eleven weeks later the 12 liberated slaves were ferried across the Detroit River to their freedom in Windsor, Canada.
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Subsequent Events:
Authority:
unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 2
ccc-2point0.com/unanimous-declaration-of-independence
References:
John Brown’s Christmas Raid into Missouri 1858
www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/john-brown-s-christmas-raid-missouri-1858/
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