The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Cornell University Press
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Cornell University Press
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780801451614 (0801451612)
Publish date: August 6th 2013
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Pages no: 276
Edition language: English
John Brown's violent battle against slavery in the US, his 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry, and his subsequent execution are well-documented in American history texts, although he remains a complicated figure, whose considerable mythology threatens to overshadow the man. Some of his sons are referenced ...