Mahala doyle biography sample
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I’ve previously discussed one woman who wrote to John Brown after his capture at Harpers Ferry.
Mahala doyle biography sample
L. Maria Child was an outspoken abolitionist who admired John Brown’s “work” in Kansas and in Harpers Ferry. Later, though, John Brown got a different kind of letter.
To understand it, we have to go back to the dark of night on the 24th of May, 1856.
John Brown had heard of the sack of Lawrence, Kansas, a Free-State town, by pro-slavery forces, and he was angry. He gathered up his sons Fredericks, Owen, Watson, and Oliver, plus two other men, and he went on a raid of his own.
The first place he stopped was the home of the Doyle family.
James and Mahala Doyle had three sons: William, Drury, and John.
Mahala doyle biography sample pdf
They owned no slaves, although James, William, and Drury were members of the pro-slavery Law and Order party. John Brown ordered the men out of the house. Mahala Doyle begged and pleaded for the life of her youngest son, and John Doyle was allowed to go back into the