Author: James RedpathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
A collection of anti-slavery papers, poems, etc., commemorative of John Brown.
Echoes of Harper's Ferry ...
Author: James RedpathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
A collection of anti-slavery papers, poems, etc., commemorative of John Brown.
ECHOES OF HARPER'S FERRY
Author: JAMES. REDPATHPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033952818
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Echoes of Harper's Ferry
Author: James RedpathEchoes of Harper's Ferry (Classic Reprint)
Author: James RedpathPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334929991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Excerpt from Echoes of Harper's Ferry I had two objects in View in editing this volume -first, to preserve, in a permanent form, the memorable words that have been spoken of Captain John Brown and, sec ond, to aid the families of the blacks and the men of color, who recently went to Heaven via Harper's Ferry, or who were murdered, with legal forms, at Charlestown, Virginia. The papers of which it consists have been revised by their authors, at my request; or they are printed, with their con sent, from properly corrected editions. My desire to preserve these papers, arises not so much from friendship for the memory of the Captain, or a per sonal sympathy for the surviving relatives of his brave colored followers, as from the hope that I may thereby fan the holy ame that their action kindled, until, becom ing a consuming fire, it shall burn up, with thoroughness and speed, every vestige of the crime of American Slavery. For I do most sincerely believe, notwithstanding the craven speeches of timeserving politicians, and the good God-good-dcvil exhortations of pusillanimous preachers, that the quickest way, and the most American way, and the only efficient way, in which to hasten on the Impend ing Crisis, - to bring to a speedy issue the approaching and Irresistible Con ict between Slavery and Freedom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
The Essays of Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780808404316
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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Echoes from a Pioneer Life
Author: Jared Maurice ArterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Echoes of Harper's Ferry
Author: James RedpathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Five for Freedom
Author: Eugene L. MeyerPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 161373574X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized the federal arsenal, took hostages, and retreated to a fire engine house where they barricaded themselves until a contingent of US Marines battered their way in on October 18. The raiders were routed, and several were captured. Soon after, they were tried, convicted, and hanged. Among Brown's fighters were five African American men—John Copeland, Shields Green, Dangerfield Newby, Lewis Leary, and Osborne Perry Anderson—whose lives and deaths have long been overshadowed by their martyred leader and who, even today, are little remembered. Only Anderson survived, later publishing the lone insider account of the event that, most historians agree, was a catalyst to the catastrophic American Civil War that followed. Five for Freedom is the story of these five brave men, the circumstances in which they were born and raised, how they came together at this fateful time and place, and the legacies they left behind. It is an American story that continues to resonate.
A Volcano Beneath the Snow
Author: Albert MarrinPublisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307981525
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book 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 commitment to domestic terrorism.
The Tie That Bound Us
Author: Bonnie Laughlin-SchultzPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801469430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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.