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John Brown's violent campaign against slavery — punctuated by the dramatic 1859 raid at Harper's Ferry, Va. — made him a divisive figure, then and now. A new biography by David Reynolds examines the ...
John Brown commemorated with a statue in the Quindaro neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. Abolitionist John Brown wasn't born in Kansas, but made his mark during the Bleeding Kansas era before the ...
An etching of John Brown’s funeral appeared in the Dec. 24, 1859 edition of the New York Illustrated News. Image from Wikimedia Commons Joshua Young had a train to catch. Aboard it was his hero, the ...
"JOHN BROWN, ABOLITIONIST: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights," by David S. Reynolds (Knopf, 578 pages, $35) Despite sustained public interest in all things ...
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PLATTSBURGH — When Mary Ann Day Brown arrived in Red Bluff, California, on Sept. 30, 1864, the widow left behind her abolitionist-martyr husband’s remains in a four-year-old grave in North Elba. The ...
JOHN BROWN, ABOLITIONIST: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
In the very first paragraphs of this biography, Bancroft Prize–winner Reynolds (Walt Whitman's America) steps back a bit from the grandiose claims of his subtitle. Nevertheless, his book as a whole ...
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