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“Nobody was ever more justly hanged” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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"'Nobody was ever more justly hanged' — Nathaniel Hawthorne"
My maternal great-grandfather's second wife's father was on the jury that condemned him. Great-grandfather's first wife, my great-grandmother, had mix-African slave ancestry (but an impressive dowry). That was the way it was then. John Brown's first victim at Harpers Ferry was a slave that was shot running away across the railroad bridge. At the museum in Charleston, there is/was a letter from the wife of a non-slave-holding farmer's wife whose husband was killed by John Brown in Kansas simply because he was from the South.