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RE: Who Said This? - Gene C - 08-07-2018
Frederick Douglass ?
RE: Who Said This? - RJNorton - 08-07-2018
Elizabeth Keckly?
RE: Who Said This? - Susan Higginbotham - 08-07-2018
No. A clue: the person was not African-American.
RE: Who Said This? - L Verge - 08-07-2018
Horace Greeley?
RE: Who Said This? - RJNorton - 08-07-2018
Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
RE: Who Said This? - Susan Higginbotham - 08-07-2018
No.
The person was female.
RE: Who Said This? - L Verge - 08-07-2018
Since we recently discussed Uncle Tom's Cabin, perhaps this was uttered by Mrs. Stowe?
RE: Who Said This? - Susan Higginbotham - 08-07-2018
No. Hint: the lady herself is not well known, but her husband was.
RE: Who Said This? - Eva Elisabeth - 08-07-2018
Edward Bates' wife? (I recall they both were very religious.)
RE: Who Said This? - Susan Higginbotham - 08-07-2018
No, not her.
RE: Who Said This? - RJNorton - 08-07-2018
Hannibal Hamlin's second wife, Ellen Hamlin?
RE: Who Said This? - Susan Higginbotham - 08-07-2018
Nope! Hint: the woman's husband died before the Civil War.
RE: Who Said This? - Steve - 08-07-2018
John Brown's widow
RE: Who Said This? - AussieMick - 08-07-2018
I was going to say John Brown's widow too , Steve. But I'm fairly sure she died before the Proclamation. ( I see that John Brown had 20 children)
I'll guess Julia Grant ...
No I wont ... because I see that a previous hint was that the woman's husband died before the Civil War ... Grant was a very special person but I doubt he was capable of doing what he did whilst deceased.
Argh! I now see that Susan has said the correct answer is Mary Brown ! I hereby retract my retraction.
( This is what comes through skimming through Wikipedia ... I saw Brown had been married twice but only looked at Dianthe Lusk's date of death).
Reading about John Brown and Harper's Ferry and all that baby talk reminds me of a song (Gene, please note) ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS7_e9LdvDI
RE: Who Said This? - Susan Higginbotham - 08-07-2018
Score! John Brown's widow, Mary Brown, wrote the quote above as a postscript to a letter to Mary Stearns on January 7, 1863.
http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvmemory/jbdetail.aspx?Type=Text&Id=680
Mary Brown lived until 1884. In 1864, she, her only surviving son, and her three daughters crossed the plains to California, where she spent the rest of her life except for a trip back east near the end of her life.