Letters of John Brown and John Brown, Jr., 1855-1856
Author: John Brown
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Published: 1932
Total Pages: 16
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Author: John Brown
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Published: 1932
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 688
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Brown
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 688
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Daigh
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-05-11
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0786496177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn 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.
Author: John Brown
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 686
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. E. B. DuBois
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-04
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1317466780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1909, W.E.B. Du Bois's biography of abolitionist John Brown is a literary and historical classic. With a rare combination of scholarship and passion, Du Bois defends Brown against all detractors who saw him as a fanatic, fiend, or traitor. Brown emerges as a rich personality, fully understandable as an unusual leader with a deeply religious outlook and a devotion to the cause of freedom for the slave. This new edition is enriched with an introduction by John David Smith and with supporting documents relating to Du Bois's correspondence with his publisher.
Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
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Published: 2007-05
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0195325745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the text of the 1909 biography of abolitionist John Brown, written by African-American intellectual and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. The book has been edited by David Roediger.
Author: David S. Reynolds
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-07-29
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0307486664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration of the paradox of a man steeped in the Bible but more than willing to kill for his abolitionist cause. Reynolds locates Brown within the currents of nineteenth-century life and compares him to modern terrorists, civil-rights activists, and freedom fighters. Ultimately, he finds neither a wild-eyed fanatic nor a Christ-like martyr, but a passionate opponent of racism so dedicated to eradicating slavery that he realized only blood could scour it from the country he loved. By stiffening the backbone of Northerners and showing Southerners there were those who would fight for their cause, he hastened the coming of the Civil War. This is a vivid and startling story of a man and an age on the verge of calamity.
Author: Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 684
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gregory Toledo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-07-30
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0313065101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaptured by United States Marines at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, a fifty-nine year old farmer was quickly brought to trial in nearby Charlestown and convicted of three capital crimes: treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia; conspiring with slaves to rebel; and murder. In a field on the outskirts of town he was hanged before fifteen hundred soldiers. Colonel Robert E. Lee, Professor Thomas J. Jackson, and John Wilkes Booth stood watching. The Hanging of Old Brown attempts to remove the veils that separate the contemporary observer from an understanding of the events and the convictions that brought John Brown to a Virginia scaffold ready to die. Brown struggled to find redemption for himself and his nation. His war on slavery and eventual execution would reap the whirlwinds that would herald the destruction of slavery. Beginning with events of 1776, Toledo provides the historical context of John Brown's war, enabling readers to approach this abolitionist visionary with a better understanding of the period that defined him. Toledo hopes to dispel notions that Brown was a mere fanatic or deranged militant. This work invites readers to become acquainted with a man who is, in the end, both flawed and heroic, always deliberate, and ultimately triumphant.