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[Sidenote] Sanborn, "Life and Letters of John Brown," p.

438.
Somewhere in the Virginia mountains he would raise the standard of revolt and liberation.

Enthusiasts would join him from the free States, and escaped blacks come to his help from Canada.

From Virginia and the neighboring slave-States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, fugitive slaves, with their families, would flock to his camps.

He would take his supplies, provisions, and horses by force from the neighboring plantations.
Money, plate, watches, and jewelry would "constitute a liberal safety or intelligence fund." For arms, he had 200 Sharps rifles, and 200 revolvers, with which he would arm his best marksmen.