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| | Martin Delany Meets John Brown |
 | | MRD recalled later that Brown "at once revealed to me that he desired to carry out a great project in his scheme of Kansas Emigration and that he had been advised that, if he could but see me, his object would be attained at once. |
 | | Brown, later imprisoned in a jail in the town Delany was born in, Charles Town, Va., was befriended by his jailer, John Avis, a childhood playmate of Delany's who remained in touch with Delany in later years, however discreetly. |
 | | At that very time of Brown's visit, MRD was completing his powerful novel, "Blake: the Huts of America," about a fl man moving clandestinely through the South meeting secretly with groups of enslaved fls and inciting a violent uprising. |
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