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This is an excerpt from John Greenleaf Whittier’s 1892 “Brown of Ossawatomie.”

“...The shadows of his stormy life that mo-
ment fell apart;
And they who blamed the bloody hand
forgave the loving heart.
That kiss from all its guilty means re-
deemed the good intent,
And round the grisly fighter's hair the
martyr's aureole bent!...”

This excerpt from Whittier’s poem is in reference to the scene shown in Document Four.
Short-Answer Questions

What does the poet mean by “bloody hand”?
Does the poet think John Brown was a hero or a criminal? How do you know?

Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word bloody hand. a hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison a red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom

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