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Midnight Rising

Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429996986
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Midnight Rising written by Tony Horwitz and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011 A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland, joined by his teenage daughter, three of his sons, and a guerrilla band that included former slaves and a dashing spy. On October 17, the raiders seized Harpers Ferry, stunning the nation and prompting a counterattack led by Robert E. Lee. After Brown's capture, his defiant eloquence galvanized the North and appalled the South, which considered Brown a terrorist. The raid also helped elect Abraham Lincoln, who later began to fulfill Brown's dream with the Emancipation Proclamation, a measure he called "a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale." Tony Horwitz's riveting book travels antebellum America to deliver both a taut historical drama and a telling portrait of a nation divided—a time that still resonates in ours.

The Legend of John Brown

Author : Richard Owen Boyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of John Brown written by Richard Owen Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creating the John Brown Legend

Author : Janet Kemper Beck
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786433450
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Creating the John Brown Legend written by Janet Kemper Beck and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the triggering events of the Civil War helped divide a nation but also launched a cannonade of persuasive essays and propaganda. Early press reaction to John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry ranged from indignant horror in the South to stunned disbelief in the North. Brown's supporters wielded great power with their pens: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Lydia Maria Child. This book explores the moment when literature and history collided and literature rewrote history. This volume features 30 photographs, maps, proclamations and broadsides and a detailed timeline of events surrounding the raid.

John Brown, Abolitionist

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307486664
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book John Brown, Abolitionist written by David S. Reynolds and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 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.

John Brown

Author : Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813921327
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book John Brown written by Merrill D. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peterson gives readers John Brown in his own day, but he also shows how the flaming abolitionist warrior's image--celebrated in art, literature, and journalism--has helped him shed some of his infamy to become a symbol of American idealism and fervor. 14 illustrations.

John Brown's Spy

Author : Steven Lubet
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300180497
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book John Brown's Spy written by Steven Lubet and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the story of the man who was entrusted with all of the details of John Brown's plans to capture the Harper's Ferry armory in 1859 and how he was hunted down for a $1,000 bounty and tried as a spy.

The Legend of John Brown [Detroit, 1978].

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of John Brown [Detroit, 1978]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story of John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

Author : Zachary Kent
Publisher : Children's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780516447346
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Book Synopsis The Story of John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry by : Zachary Kent

Download or read book The Story of John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry written by Zachary Kent and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1988-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retelling of an important pre-Civil War event, the ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry.

Five for Freedom

Author : Eugene L. Meyer
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 161373574X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Five for Freedom written by Eugene L. Meyer and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized the federal arsenal, took hostages, and retreated to a fire engine house where they barricaded themselves until a contingent of US Marines battered their way in on October 18. The raiders were routed, and several were captured. Soon after, they were tried, convicted, and hanged. Among Brown's fighters were five African American men—John Copeland, Shields Green, Dangerfield Newby, Lewis Leary, and Osborne Perry Anderson—whose lives and deaths have long been overshadowed by their martyred leader and who, even today, are little remembered. Only Anderson survived, later publishing the lone insider account of the event that, most historians agree, was a catalyst to the catastrophic American Civil War that followed. Five for Freedom is the story of these five brave men, the circumstances in which they were born and raised, how they came together at this fateful time and place, and the legacies they left behind. It is an American story that continues to resonate.

A Volcano Beneath the Snow

Author : Albert Marrin
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307981525
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book A Volcano Beneath the Snow written by Albert Marrin and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life of abolitionist John Brown and the raid he led on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859, exploring his religious fanaticism and belief in "righteous violence,"--and commitment to domestic terrorism.

Patriotic Treason

Author : Evan Carton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743293851
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Patriotic Treason written by Evan Carton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Brown is a lightning rod of history. Yet he is poorly understood and most commonly described in stereotypes -- as a madman, martyr, or enigma. Not until Patriotic Treason has a biography or history brought him so fully to life, in scintillating prose and moving detail, making his life and legacy -- and the staggering sacrifices he made for his ideals-fascinatingly relevant to today's issues of social justice and to defining the line between activism and terrorism. Vividly re-creating the world in which Brown and his compatriots lived with a combination of scrupulous original research, new perspectives, and a sensitive historical imagination, Patriotic Treason narrates the dramatic life of the first U.S. citizen committed to absolute racial equality. Here are his friendships (Brown lived, worked, ate, and fought alongside African Americans, in defiance of the culture around him), his family (he turned his twenty children by two wives into a dedicated militia), and his ideals (inspired by the Declaration of Independence and the Golden Rule, he collaborated with black leaders such as Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, and Harriet Tubman to overthrow slavery). Evan Carton captures the complex, tragic, and provocative story of Brown the committed abolitionist, Brown the tender yet demanding and often absent father and husband, and Brown the radical American patriot who attacked the American state in the name of American principles. Through new research into archives, attention to overlooked family letters, and reinterpretation of documents and events, Carton essentially reveals a missing link in American history. A wrenching family saga, Patriotic Treason positions John Brown at the heart of our most profound and enduring national debates. As definitions of patriotism and treason are fiercely contested, as some criticize religious extremism while others mourn religion's decline, and as race relations in America remain unresolved, John Brown's story speaks to us as never before, reminding us that one courageous individual can change the course of history.

John Brown Still Lives!

Author : R. Blakeslee Gilpin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835013
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book John Brown Still Lives! written by R. Blakeslee Gilpin and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose of the American republic."--book jacket.

Thunderbolt

Author : Wilfred Santiago
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814255483
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book Thunderbolt written by Wilfred Santiago and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic depiction of the true story of militant abolitionist John Brown and his rise to infamy in pre-Civil War America.

Blacks on John Brown

Author : Benjamin Quarles
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Blacks on John Brown written by Benjamin Quarles and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Quarles brings together for the first time a broad range of statements by blacks on Brown from his day to the present -- from William Wells Brown and Frederick Douglass (who explains why he did not join the raid) to Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Lerone Bennett. The twenty-four selections include personal letters, eulogies, resolutions, reminiscences, sermons, poems, essays, newspaper editorials, and assessments by historians. The heroic image of Brown that they project was a factor in creating the legend of an immortal John Brown, a continuing source of inspiration for black leaders. The selections reveal much about America, black protest, and the relationship between blacks and whites over the past century. -- From publisher's description.

The Untold Story of Shields Green

Author : Louis A. Decaro, Jr.
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479802751
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Untold Story of Shields Green written by Louis A. Decaro, Jr. and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the Black men who followed John Brown to Harper’s Ferry in 1859 When John Brown decided to raid the federal armory in Harper’s Ferry as the starting point of his intended liberation effort in the South, some closest to him thought it was unnecessary and dangerous. Frederick Douglass, a pioneering abolitionist, refused Brown’s invitation to join him in Virginia, believing that the raid on the armory was a suicide mission. Yet in front of Douglass, “Emperor” Shields Green, a fugitive from South Carolina, accepted John Brown’s invitation. When the raid failed, Emperor was captured with the rest of Brown’s surviving men and hanged on December 16, 1859. “Emperor” Shields Green was a critical member of John Brown’s Harper’s Ferry raiders but has long been overlooked. Louis DeCaro, Jr., a veteran scholar of John Brown, presents the first effort to tell Emperor’s story based upon extensive research, restoring him to his rightful place in this fateful raid at the origin of the American Civil War. Starting from his birth in Charleston, South Carolina, Green’s life as an abolitionist freedom-fighter, whose passion for the liberation of his people outweighed self-preservation, is extensively detailed in this compact history. In The Untold Story of Shields Green, Emperor pushes back against racism and injustice and stands in his rightful place as an antislavery figure alongside Frederick Douglass and John Brown.

The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry

Author : Joseph Barry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry written by Joseph Barry and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Legend of John Brown

Author : Richard Owen Boyer
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of John Brown written by Richard Owen Boyer and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The accepted view of historians has dismissed Brown as a violent and unstable fanatic, thrust into symbolic prominence by the accident of approaching civil war. Richard Boyer, who has been a New Yorker writer and co-author of Labor's Untold Story (1955), has foraged in the sources as diligently as any professional historian. But the great merit of this first volume of his biography is that it restores Brown as what he was: an archetypal hero of the epic of 19th-century America, which was both pilgrimage and enterprise...." -- Godfrey Hodgson, NYT (review posted on Amazon.com)