Recollections of seventy years

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Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was born in 1821 at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, the fifth of seven children of Aaron and Lydia Leavitt Sanborn. He was active in the anti-slavery movement and wrote of that movement, John Brown and other abolistionists, and politics in general in the United States, 1854-1861.

subjects: Politics and government,  History and criticism,  American literature,  Antislavery movements,  Slavery,  Anti-slavery movements

People: John Brown (1800-1859)

Places: United States,  Concord (Mass.)

Times: 1849-1861