![]() ![]() It was an odd request-and of course a political gambit, which Wise instantly understood. She said she merely wanted to comfort the brave old freedom fighter. In 1859, after John Brown’s failed attack on the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, where he hoped to spark a slave insurrection, Lydia Maria Child asked permission from Virginia governor Henry Wise to visit Brown, who was awaiting execution.
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