Book Description
Two young cousins and their fathers become involved in events leading up to abolitionist John Brown's raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859.
Author : Alan N. Kay
Publisher : White Mane Publishing Co.,
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1572492392
Two young cousins and their fathers become involved in events leading up to abolitionist John Brown's raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859.
Author : Alan N. Kay
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2002-02-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780613874540
An adventure that exposes the extremes of the abolitionist movement.
Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1429996986
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.
Author : Thomas Fleming
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 161230866X
Even his abolitionist allies thought his attack on Harpers Ferry insane, but, as this short-form book by New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming points out, John Brown sensed that his trial and death would ignite the nation's conscience.
Author : Terry Bisson
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1604862580
It’s 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman’s guerrilla army. Long unavailable in the U.S., published in France as Nova Africa, Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had succeeded—and the Civil War had been started not by the slave owners but the abolitionists.
Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 1931
Category : English drama
ISBN :
Author : STEPHEN VINCENT BENET
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 1928
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Richard Owen Boyer
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"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)
Author : E. C. R. Lorac
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 1938
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Elijah Avey
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 1906
Category :
ISBN :