"After decades of mistrust and recrimination over the conflict between slavery and free labor, many in the North and South now found themselves even more fundamentally at odds. As Northerners increasingly hailed Brown as a hero, panicky Southerners execrated him as the devil himself."
Steven Lubet in Salon marks the sesquicentennial of John Brown's Raid.
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