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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

Reynolds, David S.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHistorical Figures19th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 0375726152
ISBN13: 9780375726156
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Nov 14 2006
Pages: 592
Weight: 1.18
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
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.

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