John Brown: The Legend Revisited

by Merrill D. Peterson

Book Overview

Few figures hold as mythic a place in America's historical consciousness as John Brown. A fervent abolitionist, his New England reserve tempered by a childhood on the Ohio frontier, Brown advocated arming fugitive slaves to fight for their freedom, an idea that impressed Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. In 1855, answering the call of his five sons to join them in the desperate struggle for freedom in the new territories,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813923085
• ISBN13: 9780813923086
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher