John Brown Abolitionist

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307486660

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John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds Pdf

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.

Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429996983

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Midnight Rising by Tony Horwitz Pdf

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 : John Brown
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1519642296

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Primary Accounts of John Brown, Abolitionist by John Brown Pdf

John Brown (May 9, 1800 - December 2, 1859) holds a unique place in American history, often viewed as a force for good and an evil man at the same time. Brown was a revolutionary abolitionist in the United States who became famous in his own time for practicing armed insurrection as a means to abolish slavery for good. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre during which five men were killed in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and became notorious for his attempted raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859. For that, he was tried and executed for treason against the state of Virginia, murder, and conspiracy. Brown has been called "the most controversial of all 19th-century Americans." Brown's attempt in 1859 to start a liberation movement among enslaved African Americans in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) electrified the nation. He was tried for treason against the state of Virginia, the murder of five pro-slavery Southerners, and inciting a slave insurrection and was subsequently hanged. Southerners alleged that his rebellion was the tip of the abolitionist iceberg and represented the wishes of the Republican Party to end slavery. Historians agree that the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859 escalated tensions that, a year later, led to secession and the Civil War. Brown's final speech, along with other words and interviews spoken by Brown during and after his trial and imprisonment are contained here in a collection of Primary Accounts of John Brown. Included are the last letters to his family, his last speech, his interview in prison, and the final note he wrote the day he was executed which predicted that slavery would only be abolished through the spilling of blood.

Author : W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547085706

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John Brown by W. E. B. Du Bois Pdf

This book is a biography of John Brown, an American abolitionist leader who as he first reached national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, was eventually captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War.

Author : Virginia Brackett
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438102788

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John Brown by Virginia Brackett Pdf

After witnessing the cruel treatment of a slave as a youngster, John Brown dedicated his life to the abolition of slavery. In the years before the Civil War, Brown fought to keep Kansas in the Union and was eventually hanged for trying to initiate a slave

Author : Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00017683

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Slave Life in Georgia by Brown Pdf

Author : American Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
ISBN : OXFORD:N10548693

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The Anti-slavery History of the John-Brown Year by American Anti-Slavery Society Pdf

Author : Louis A. DeCaro
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0717807428

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John Brown by Louis A. DeCaro Pdf

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525563457

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The Zealot and the Emancipator by H. W. Brands Pdf

From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery. Brown’s violence pointed ambitious Illinois lawyer and former officeholder Abraham Lincoln toward a different solution to slavery: politics. Lincoln spoke cautiously and dreamed big, plotting his path back to Washington and perhaps to the White House. Yet his caution could not protect him from the vortex of violence Brown had set in motion. After Brown’s arrest, his righteous dignity on the way to the gallows led many in the North to see him as a martyr to liberty. Southerners responded with anger and horror to a terrorist being made into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle between the opposing voices of the fractured nation and won election as president. But the time for moderation had passed, and Lincoln’s fervent belief that democracy could resolve its moral crises peacefully faced its ultimate test. The Zealot and the Emancipator is the thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.

Author : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502605344

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John Brown and Armed Resistance to Slavery by Rebecca Stefoff Pdf

John Brown and his violent attacks on slavery have been romanticized through the years. Find out about the man behind the myth and learn about his contribution to the abolitionist movement. The book is complete with timeline, primary sources, photographs, and excerpts from the time period.

Author : W. E. B. DuBois
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317466789

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John Brown by W. E. B. DuBois Pdf

First 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 : John Hendrix
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0810937980

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John Brown by John Hendrix Pdf

In the late 1850s, at a time when many men and women spoke out against slavery, few had the same impact as John Brown, the infamous white abolitionist who backed his beliefs with unstoppable action.

Author : Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801469435

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The Tie That Bound Us by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz Pdf

John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown’s raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859 and his subsequent execution. Less well known is his devotion to his family, and they to him. Two of Brown’s sons were killed at Harpers Ferry, but the commitment of his wife and daughters often goes unacknowledged. In The Tie That Bound Us, Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz reveals for the first time the depth of the Brown women’s involvement in his cause and their crucial roles in preserving and transforming his legacy after his death. As detailed by Laughlin-Schultz, Brown’s second wife Mary Ann Day Brown and his daughters Ruth Brown Thompson, Annie Brown Adams, Sarah Brown, and Ellen Brown Fablinger were in many ways the most ordinary of women, contending with chronic poverty and lives that were quite typical for poor, rural nineteenth-century women. However, they also lived extraordinary lives, crossing paths with such figures as Frederick Douglass and Lydia Maria Child and embracing an abolitionist moral code that sanctioned antislavery violence in place of the more typical female world of petitioning and pamphleteering. In the aftermath of John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry, the women of his family experienced a particular kind of celebrity among abolitionists and the American public. In their roles as what daughter Annie called "relics" of Brown’s raid, they tested the limits of American memory of the Civil War, especially the war’s most radical aim: securing racial equality. Because of their longevity (Annie, the last of Brown’s daughters, died in 1926) and their position as symbols of the most radical form of abolitionist agitation, the story of the Brown women illuminates the changing nature of how Americans remembered Brown’s raid, radical antislavery, and the causes and consequences of the Civil War.

Author : Jon Sterngass
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438144269

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John Brown by Jon Sterngass Pdf

A brief, illustrated biography of abolitionist John Brown, his efforts to destroy the institution of slavery, the raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859, and the role his cause played in the onset of the Civil War.

Author : Brian McGinty
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674035171

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John Brown’s Trial by Brian McGinty Pdf

Here, Brian McGinty provides a comprehensive account of the trial of abolitionist John Brown. After the jury returned its guilty verdict, an appeal was quickly disposed of, and the governor of Virginia refused to grant clemency.