John Brown knew the masters secretly feared their slaves might revolt, even as they assured abolitionists that slaves really liked slavery. One reason his Harpers Ferry raid prompted such an outcry in the South was that slave owners feared their slaves might join him.

— James W. Loewen Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995)

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