QuestionThere were many mixed opinions about John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the radical movement to put an end to slavery. Margaretta Mason of Virginia was angry at Lydia Maria Child, a Northerner from Massachusetts, who had written a letter condoning John Brown's actions. Mason responded to Child by writing,"Do you read your Bible, Mrs. Child? If you do, read there "Wo unto you, hypocrites," and take to yourself with twofold damnation that terrible sentence...You would sooth with sisterly and motherly care the hoary-headed murder of Harpers Ferry! A man whose aim and intention was to incite the horrors of a servile war—to condemn women of your own race, ere death closed there eyes on their sufferings from violence and outrage, to see their husbands and fathers murdered, their children butchered..."What best explains Mason's angry reaction?After reading Margaretta Mason's response to Lydia Maria Child why do you think she was so angry with Child's support for John Brown?

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