Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left

by Mark A. Lause

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive history of pre-Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals and militant abolitionists on the long road to the failed slave revolt of Harpers Ferry in 1859. This book contains new and fascinating insights into the cast of characters who created a homegrown American socialist movement through the nineteenth century - from Thomas Paine's revolution to Robert Owen's utopianism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745337600
• ISBN13: 9780745337609
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"