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How throughout the text the author presents the south defeat in the civil war as a deeply personal event for John Wilkes booth cite evidence from the text to support answer

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John Wilkes Booth was a vigorous supporter of the Southern cause. He was outspoken in his advocacy of slavery and his hatred of U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln. He was a volunteer in the Richmond militia that hanged the abolitionist John Brown after Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid in 1859.

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