John Brown, commanding his abolitionist militia, flees the federal enclave of Kansas for Detroit, Michigan with eleven freedmen. Brown intends to send them across the Detroit River, into British North America (a.k.a. Canada) and to freedom.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 155.
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