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By W.E.B. Du Bois, David R. Roediger

ISBN-10: 0679783539

ISBN-13: 9780679783534

A relocating cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, through the most very important African-American intellectuals of the 20th century.

In the historical past of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms huge as a hero whose deeds partially induced the Civil warfare. As Frederick Douglass wrote: "When John Brown stretched forth his arm ... the conflict of palms was once at hand." DuBois's biography brings Brown stirringly to existence and is a missed vintage.

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He visits Buford’s camp in May. The sacking of Lawrence, May 21st. The Pottawatomie murders, May 23–26th. Arrest of two sons, May 28th. Battle of Black Jack, June 2d. Goes to Iowa with his wounded son-in-law and joins Lane’s army, July and August. Joins in attacks to rid Lawrence of surrounding forts, August. Battle of Osawatomie, August 30th. Missouri’s last invasion of Kansas, September 15th. Geary arrives and induces Brown to leave Kansas, September. Brown starts for the East with his sons, September 20th.

Missouri’s last invasion of Kansas, September 15th. Geary arrives and induces Brown to leave Kansas, September. Brown starts for the East with his sons, September 20th. THE ABOLITIONIST 1857—John Brown is in Boston in January. He attends the New York meeting of the National Kansas Committee, in January. Before the Massachusetts legislature in February. Tours New England to raise money, March and April. Contracts for 1,000 pikes in Connecticut. 1857—He starts West, May. , August and September. He founds a military school in Iowa, December.

Three lands typified these three things which time planted in the New World: England sent Puritanism, the last white flower of the Lutheran revolt; Holland sent the new vigor and thrift of the Renaissance; while Celtic lands and bits of lands like France and Ireland and Wales, sent the passionate desire for personal freedom. These three elements came, and came more often than not in the guise of humble men—an English carpenter on the Mayflower, an Amsterdam tailor seeking a new ancestral city, and a Welsh wanderer.

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