What is the central idea of this excerpt?
the dictatorship resulted in many details.
it was possible for people to escape to canada.
many people fought for a democratic nation.
the authors family was unusually lucky.

I think the central idea of this excerpt is A. The dictatorship resulted in many deaths. I think so because it starts with the phrase "By the time my mother married my father, however, she knew all about the true nature of the dictatorship", as if her mother might have thought in the beginning the dictatorship was somehow good or not worse than other dictatorships or governments that ruled the country, but learned the truth quickly.

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in 1859, brown and 21 of his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal in harper's ferry. their goal was to capture supplies and use them to arm a slave rebellion. brown was captured during the raid and later hanged, but not before becoming an anti-slavery icon. abolitionist and insurrectionist

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