LoginJohn Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
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Despised and admired during his life and after his execution, the abolitionist John Brown polarized the nation and remains one of the most controversial figures in U.S. history. His 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, failed to inspire a slave revolt and establish a free Appalachian state but became a crucial turning point in the fight against slavery and a catalyst for the violence that ignited the Civil War. Jonathan Earle’s volume presents Brown as neither villain nor martyr, but rather as a man whose deeply held abolitionist beliefs gradually evolved to a point where he saw violence as inevitable. Earle’s introduction
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Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
Release date: 4 January 2008
ISBN-10 : 031239280X | ISBN-13: 9780312392802
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