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The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid
John Stauffer
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Description for The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid
Hardback. This landmark anthology collects speeches, letters, newspapers, journals, poems, and songs to demonstrate that John Brown's actions at Harpers Ferry altered the course of history. Without Brown, the Civil War probably would have been delayed by four years and emancipation movements in Brazil, Cuba, even Russia might have been disrupted. Editor(s): Stauffer, John; Trodd, Zoe. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 640 pages, 1 halftone, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBAH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 166 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1052.
When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a biblical uprising of millions of armed bondsmen, thus ridding the nation of the scourge of slavery. The insurrection did not happen, and Brown and the other surviving raiders were quickly captured and executed. This landmark anthology, which collects contemporary speeches, letters, newspaper articles, journals, poems, and songs, demonstrates that Brown's actions nonetheless altered the course of American history. John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd have assembled an impressive and wide-ranging collection of responses to Brown's ... Read more
When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a biblical uprising of millions of armed bondsmen, thus ridding the nation of the scourge of slavery. The insurrection did not happen, and Brown and the other surviving raiders were quickly captured and executed. This landmark anthology, which collects contemporary speeches, letters, newspaper articles, journals, poems, and songs, demonstrates that Brown's actions nonetheless altered the course of American history. John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd have assembled an impressive and wide-ranging collection of responses to Brown's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
640
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674048850
SKU
V9780674048850
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About John Stauffer
John Stauffer is Professor of English, of American Studies, and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. He is the author of Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Zoe Trodd is Professor of American Literature at the University of Nottingham.
Reviews for The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid
No one is likely to have the last word on John Brown, the abolitionist and leader of the 1859 Harpers Ferry raid that cut to the marrow of the slavery question and convinced many Southerners that the North had gone mad and wanted to incite slave rebellion. However, this superb collection of documents comes very close to doing so. In ... Read more