The Story Of John Browns Raid On Harpers Ferry

Author : Jonathan Earle
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319241689
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry written by Jonathan Earle and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despised and admired during his life and after his execution, the abolitionist John Brown polarized the nation and remains one of the most controversial figures in U.S. history. His 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, failed to inspire a slave revolt and establish a free Appalachian state but became a crucial turning point in the fight against slavery and a catalyst for the violence that ignited the Civil War. Jonathan Earle’s volume presents Brown as neither villain nor martyr, but rather as a man whose deeply held abolitionist beliefs gradually evolved to a point where he saw violence as inevitable. Earle’s introduction and his collection of documents demonstrate the evolution of Brown’s abolitionist strategies and the symbolism his actions took on in the press, the government, and the wider culture. The featured documents include Brown’s own writings, eyewitness accounts, government reports, and articles from the popular press and from leading intellectuals. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, a list of important figures, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support.

Author : Jon-Erik M. Gilot
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611215986
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Brown's Raid written by Jon-Erik M. Gilot and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first shot of the American Civil War was not fired on April 12, 1861, in Charleston, South Carolina, but instead came on October 16, 1859, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia—or so claimed former slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The shot came like a meteor in the dark. John Brown, the infamous fighter on the Kansas plains and detester of slavery, led a band of nineteen men on a desperate nighttime raid that targeted the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. There, they planned to begin a war to end slavery in the United States. But after 36 tumultuous hours, John Brown’s Raid failed, and Brown himself became a prisoner of the state of Virginia. Brown’s subsequent trial further divided north and south on the issue of slavery as Brown justified his violent actions to a national audience forced to choose sides. Ultimately, Southerners cheered Brown’s death at the gallows while Northerners observed it with reverence. The nation’s dividing line had been drawn. Herman Melville and Walt Whitman extolled Brown as a “meteor” of the war. Roughly one year after Brown and his men attacked slavery in Virginia, the nation split apart, fueled by Brown’s fiery actions. John Brown’s Raid tells the story of the first shots that led to disunion. Richly filled with maps and images, it includes a driving and walking tour of sites related to Brown’s Raid so visitors today can follow the path of America’s meteor.

Author : Jason Glaser
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0736843698
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry written by Jason Glaser and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In graphic novel format, tells the story of John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429996986
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight Rising written by Tony Horwitz and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011 A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland, joined by his teenage daughter, three of his sons, and a guerrilla band that included former slaves and a dashing spy. On October 17, the raiders seized Harpers Ferry, stunning the nation and prompting a counterattack led by Robert E. Lee. After Brown's capture, his defiant eloquence galvanized the North and appalled the South, which considered Brown a terrorist. The raid also helped elect Abraham Lincoln, who later began to fulfill Brown's dream with the Emancipation Proclamation, a measure he called "a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale." Tony Horwitz's riveting book travels antebellum America to deliver both a taut historical drama and a telling portrait of a nation divided—a time that still resonates in ours.

Author : Zachary Kent
Publisher : Children's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780516447346
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry written by Zachary Kent and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1988-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retelling of an important pre-Civil War event, the ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry.

Author : Richard Hinton
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 145850106X
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Brown and His Men written by Richard Hinton and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Willard Crompton
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438131755
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Raid on Harpers Ferry written by Samuel Willard Crompton and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how this action to incite a slave rebellion was viewed 150 years ago and the repercussions it has had on the United States. Includes color and black-and-white photographs, biographical sidebars, a chronology, a timeline, further reading, and an index.

Author : Steven Lubet
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300180497
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Brown's Spy written by Steven Lubet and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the story of the man who was entrusted with all of the details of John Brown's plans to capture the Harper's Ferry armory in 1859 and how he was hunted down for a $1,000 bounty and tried as a spy.

Author : R. Conrad Stein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780766011236
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry in American History written by R. Conrad Stein and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Civil War, few people openly protested against slavery. John Brown, however, created a plan to start a slave uprising, which he believed would lead all slaves to revolt against their masters. Though the plan failed and Brown was executed for treason, the raid at Harpers Ferry became one of the major events that brought about the start of the Civil War. This book traces the unique story of John Brown, called a martyr by some and a madman by others, who gave his life in the struggle to abolish slavery in America.

Author : Tracy Barrett
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780606064507
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harper's Ferry written by Tracy Barrett and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the personal background of abolitionist John Brown and the events surrounding the raid he led on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859.