 | Howard Zinn - History - 2009 - 100 pages
...rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends ... or father, mother, brother, sister, wife or children,...in this interference, it would have been all right. Every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment. This court... | |
 | Howard Zinn - History - 2009 - 100 pages
...addresses the court that ordered his hanging. JOHN BROWN Had I interfered in the manner, which I admit, had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful,...so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends ... or father, mother, brother, sister, wife or children, or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed... | |
 | Joy Hakim - History - 2003 - 438 pages
...everything but ...a design on my part to free slaves. . . . Had I interfered in the manner I admit ... in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great . . . every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.... | |
 | Elizabeth Sirimarco - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 150 pages
...admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case), — had I so interfered in behalf of the rich,...of any of their friends— either father, mother, sister, wife, or children, or any of that classend suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference,... | |
 | David Brion Davis - Social Science - 2006 - 464 pages
...his trial Brown claimed to have acted under the "higher law" of the New Testament. He insisted that had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful,...so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends . . . and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right; and... | |
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I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case) — had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends, either... 
