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Thinking about the abolitionist hymn JOHN BROWN'S BODY and its transformation into THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC mobilized to abolish slavery, eventually sung by the invaders to kill my countrymen half a world away. The long arc of history seems to be recuperation.
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