"John Brown's Last Speech"

“Book: Lies My Teacher Told Me.”

“Persons convicted of the forcible violation of any female prisoner shall be put to death.”

“In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves.… I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection.”

“You had better — all you people at the South — prepare yourselves for a settlement of this question, that must come up for settlement sooner than you are prepared for it. The sooner you are prepared the better. You may dispose of me very easily, — I am nearly disposed by now; but this question is still to be settled, — this negro question I mean; the end of that is not yet.”

“I bring you one of the best and bravest persons on this continent — General Tubman as we call her.”

“This is a beautiful country.”