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"In graphic novel format, tells the story of John Brown's 1859. raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia"--Provided by publisher.
Brown, John, --- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) --- History --- Braun, Dzhon, --- Old Brown, --- Fighting Brown, --- Ossawatomie Brown,
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Mixing idealism with violence, abolitionist John Brown cut a wide swath across the United States before winding up in Virginia, where he led an attack on the U.S. armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Supported by a "provisional army" of 21 men, Brown hoped to rouse the slaves in Virginia to rebellion. But he was quickly captured and, after a short but stormy trial, hanged on December 2, 1859. Brian McGinty provides the first comprehensive account of the trial, which raised important questions about jurisdiction, judicial fairness, and the nature of treason under the American constitutional system.
Trials (Treason) --- Abolitionists --- Treason --- Brown, John, --- Braun, Dzhon, --- Old Brown, --- Fighting Brown, --- Ossawatomie Brown, --- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) --- History
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Abolitionists --- Brown, John, --- Braun, Dzhon, --- Old Brown, --- Fighting Brown, --- Ossawatomie Brown, --- Friends and associates. --- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) --- History
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John Brown's Spy tells the nearly unknown story of John E. Cook, the person John Brown trusted most with the details of his plans to capture the Harper's Ferry armory in 1859. Cook was a poet, a marksman, a boaster, a dandy, a fighter, and a womanizer-as well as a spy. In a life of only thirty years, he studied law in Connecticut, fought border ruffians in Kansas, served as an abolitionist mole in Virginia, took white hostages during the Harper's Ferry raid, and almost escaped to freedom. For ten days after the infamous raid, he was the most hunted man in America with a staggering. 1 ,000 bounty on his head. Tracking down the unexplored circumstances of John Cook's life and disastrous end, Steven Lubet is the first to uncover the full extent of Cook's contributions to Brown's scheme. Without Cook's participation, the author contends, Brown might never have been able to launch the insurrection that sparked the Civil War. Had Cook remained true to the cause, history would have remembered him as a hero. Instead, when Cook was captured and brought to trial, he betrayed John Brown and named fellow abolitionists in a full confession that earned him a place in history's tragic pantheon of disgraced turncoats.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. --- Cook, John E. --- Brown, John, --- Braun, Dzhon, --- Old Brown, --- Fighting Brown, --- Ossawatomie Brown, --- Cooke, John E. --- Friends and associates. --- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) --- History
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In Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, twelve-year-old Josh uncovers family secrets involving his overly strict father, whose anger threatens to tear the family apart.
Dysfunctional families --- Fathers and sons --- Brown, John, --- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) --- West Virginia --- Braun, Dzhon, --- Fighting Brown, --- Old Brown, --- Ossawatomie Brown,
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From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change. Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose
Equality --- Violence --- Abolitionists --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- History. --- Social aspects --- Brown, John, --- In literature. --- Influence. --- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) --- History --- Braun, Dzhon, --- Old Brown, --- Fighting Brown, --- Ossawatomie Brown,
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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.
Women --- Antislavery movements --- Women abolitionists --- Abolitionists --- Women social reformers --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Political activity --- History --- Brown family. --- Brown, John, --- Relations with women. --- Family. --- Braun, Dzhon, --- Old Brown, --- Fighting Brown, --- Ossawatomie Brown,
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On the night of Sunday, October 16, 1859, hoping to bring about the eventual end of slavery, radical abolitionist John Brown launched an armed attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Among his troops, there were only five black men, who have largely been treated as little more than 'spear carriers' by Brown's many biographers and other historians of the antebellum era. This book brings one such man, John Anthony Copeland, directly to center stage. Copeland played a leading role in the momentous Oberlin slave rescue, and he successfully escorted a fugitive to Canada, making him an ideal recruit for Brown's invasion of Virginia. He fought bravely at Harpers Ferry, only to be captured and charged with murder and treason. With his trademark lively prose and compelling narrative style, Steven Lubet paints a vivid portrait of this young black man who gave his life for freedom.
African American abolitionists --- Antislavery movements --- Abolitionists --- Social reformers --- Abolitionism --- Anti-slavery movements --- Slavery --- Human rights movements --- History --- Copeland, John A. --- Brown, John, --- Braun, Dzhon, --- Old Brown, --- Fighting Brown, --- Ossawatomie Brown, --- Friends and associates. --- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
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At a time when slavery was spreading and America was steeped in racism, two white and two black men formed a unique alliance that sought to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of slavery and oppression.
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