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RE: Who Said This? - Gene C - 08-07-2018 10:08 AM
Frederick Douglass ?
RE: Who Said This? - RJNorton - 08-07-2018 10:32 AM
Elizabeth Keckly?
RE: Who Said This? - Susan Higginbotham - 08-07-2018 12:06 PM
No. A clue: the person was not African-American.
RE: Who Said This? - L Verge - 08-07-2018 12:15 PM
Horace Greeley?
RE: Who Said This? - RJNorton - 08-07-2018 12:18 PM
Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
RE: Who Said This? - Susan Higginbotham - 08-07-2018 12:27 PM
No.
The person was female.
RE: Who Said This? - L Verge - 08-07-2018 01:16 PM
Since we recently discussed Uncle Tom's Cabin, perhaps this was uttered by Mrs. Stowe?
RE: Who Said This? - Susan Higginbotham - 08-07-2018 01:23 PM
No. Hint: the lady herself is not well known, but her husband was.
RE: Who Said This? - Eva Elisabeth - 08-07-2018 01:45 PM
Edward Bates' wife? (I recall they both were very religious.)
RE: Who Said This? - Susan Higginbotham - 08-07-2018 03:06 PM
No, not her.
RE: Who Said This? - RJNorton - 08-07-2018 03:37 PM
Hannibal Hamlin's second wife, Ellen Hamlin?
RE: Who Said This? - Susan Higginbotham - 08-07-2018 04:29 PM
Nope! Hint: the woman's husband died before the Civil War.
RE: Who Said This? - Steve - 08-07-2018 05:16 PM
John Brown's widow
RE: Who Said This? - AussieMick - 08-07-2018 05:41 PM
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 06:12 PM
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.