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September 18, 2022 110 mins

Today on Murderhobos: John Brown, an abolitionist, freedom fighter, and often considered one of America’s first domestic terrorists. Brown has remained a hugely divisive figure in American history, presented either as a insane zealot or a hero of the downtrodden, but his action and motivation is the contradiction of American democracy: how can a country that professes freedom and liberty for all keep four million people in bondage?

 

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