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One night a young teenager named Theodore Worth was sitting in his quaker home with his parents that were hiding a man named John Brown. He was a strong abolitionist that was planning on raiding Harpers Ferry to do this he needed a whole group of abolitionists and or freedom seekers to go with him and hold off the army they had there. When Theodore heard that he knew this John Brown was either crazy or he had the greatest idea on freeing slaves than anyone had before at that time. So Theodore snuck out of his home shortly after John left to hide out in a barn and recruit people to go with him to the ferry. Theodore arrived at this hide out when Brown had nearly enough people to head out so they did. John wasn’t

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