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Explanation: The face is a photograph of John Brown, an American abolitionist who fought for the freedom of slaves before the US Civil War. He was executed by Virginia after a failed attempt to start a slave uprising, and became a martyr to the anti-slavery North, exacerbating tensions that would lead to the US Civil War, and the abolition of chattel slavery in the US. His soul goes marching on!
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