Duk da yake wasu abolitionists kamar Frederick Douglass da William Lloyd Garrison ba goyi bayan da dabara, Brown mafarkin na fada don ƙirƙirar sabuwar jihar ga 'yanci bayi, da kuma sanya shirye-shirye domin soja mataki. Bayan ya fara na farko da yaƙi, ya yi imani, bayi zai tashi sama da kuma gudanar da wani tawaye a fadin kudanci. Ya tambaye Tubman tattara tsohon bayi to, a yanzu-rana a kudancin Ontario wanda zai iya zama a shirye su shiga yaƙi da karfi, wanda ta aikata kanta.
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