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1850's
John Brown, fanatical abolitionist who was hanged in 1859 for leading a raid on Harper's Ferry (Virginia, later West
Virginia) in October of that year, visited Woonsocket seeking support for the Abolitionist cause. He wrote a letter to
his wife from his prison cell in which he mentions Woonsocket's Edward Harris' generosity towards him. The visit was
mentioned in the Woonsocket Patriot by Samuel Foss, editor, in his commemoration of Brown's passing.
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