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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
244 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 committment to domestic terrorism.
2) John Brown, abolitionist: the man who killed slavery, sparked the Civil War, and seeded civil rights
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2005
Physical Desc
x, 578 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the story of John Copeland, Shields Green, Dangerfield Newby, Lewis Leary, and Osborne Perry Anderson, five African American men who participated in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Details their early lives, the events of the raid, and their legacies. Includes black-and-white photographs.
6) The zealot and the emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to do whatever was necessary...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Publication Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history"--Container.