John Brown


Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
The Good Lord Bird
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
Cloudsplitter
John Brown
"Fire From the Midst of You": A Religious Life of John Brown
Raising Holy Hell
To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown
Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America
Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics (Encountering Traditions)
Allies for Freedom/Blacks on John Brown
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
John Brown: The Cost of Freedom
A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown's War Against Slavery
John Brown: His Fight for Freedom
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Henry David Thoreau
Who is it whose safety requires that Captain Brown be hung? Is it indispensable to any Northern man? Is there no resource but to cast these men also to the Minotaur? If you do not wish it, say so distinctly. While these things are being done, beauty stands veiled and music is a screeching lie. Think of him,—of his rare qualities!—such a man as it takes ages to make, and ages to understand; no mock hero, nor the representative of any party. A man such as the sun may not rise upon again in this be ...more
Henry David Thoreau, Apologia per John Brown

Frederick Douglass
In studying the character and works of a great man, it is always desirable to learn in what he is distinguished from others, and what have been the causes if this difference.
Frederick Douglass, John Brown

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