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NORTH ELBA, New York John Brown was not one to tolerate moral crime as an acceptable fact of life, most certainly not the foremost shame of his time—chattel slavery in the American South, begun in 1619 when the first boatload of kidnapped Africans landed ashore at the inaptly named Point Comfort, Virginia. A moral crime that would last for centuries later, until its end during the American Civil War of 1861-65. A fiery Christian and radical abolitionist who sometimes met violence on the path to a righteous cause he led—underRead More