John Brown in Memory and Myth
John Brown in Memory and Myth

Author: Michael Daigh

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-05-11

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0786496177

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John Brown's father on the day of his birth, May 9, 1800, wrote "John was born one hundred years after his great grandfather. Nothing else very uncommon." Many years later came the 1856 Pottawatomie Massacre, where his uncommon convictions led him and his band of abolitionists to kill five pro-slavery settlers in Franklin County, Kansas. Three years later, Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and his subsequent trial and execution helped push an already divided nation inexorably toward civil war. This is the story of John Brown, the age he embodied and the myth he became, and how the tragic gravity of his actions transformed America's past and future. Through biographical narrative, his life and legacy are discussed as a study in metaphor and power and the nature of historical memory.

The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia (Classic Reprint)
The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia (Classic Reprint)

Author: Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-23

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 9780282488192

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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia Since the above was written, owen brown has died in California lewis hayden in Boston and james redpath in New York There is now no survivor, so far as I know, of John Brown's Company at Harper's Ferry; and few of those now living can testify of their own knowledge to the early-formed plans Of Brown for attacking slavery by force. A controversial writer in the Andover Review has lately questioned the exactness of any statement on this point; but he has since confessed himself satisfied, by the emphatic testimony of John Brown, Jr. Many interesting facts have come to light since 1885, but none requiring any material correction of this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.