John Brown

  • John Brown
    John Brown
    By W.E.B. Du Bois

    Wendell Phillips says: “The last time I ever saw John Brown was under my own roof, as he brought Harriet Tubman to me, saying: 'Mr. Phillips, I bring you one of the best and bravest persons on this continent—General Tubman, ...

  • John Brown: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
    John Brown: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
    By William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

    (b) The arms could have been taken down to the Potomac from the school— house, ferried across and moved over to Kagi. Brown and his men could have joined the party there and all retreated up Loudoun Heights. From the fact that Brown had ...

  • John Brown: A Biography
    John Brown: A Biography
    By William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, John David Smith

    Three years later Du Bois informed Oswald Garrison Villard , his rival both as a Brown biographer and as a leader of the fledgling NAACP , that his book on Brown was " going to be an interpretation , and I am not trying to go very ...

  • John Brown: El Ataque a Harpers Ferry/John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
    John Brown: El Ataque a Harpers Ferry/John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
    By Jason Glaser

    Describes the raid on an armory in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia by John Brown, an abolistionist, in 1859. In graphic novel format.

  • John Brown
    John Brown
    By William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

    With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by Paul Finkelman, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.

  • John Brown: Armed Abolitionist
    John Brown: Armed Abolitionist
    By Alison Morretta

    Garrison claimed that Brown's trial was a mockery and that he was “judicially assassinated.” He stated that Brown's actions were justi ed and reminded his readers that “God knows nothing of color or complexion.

  • John Brown: Armed Abolitionist
    John Brown: Armed Abolitionist
    By Alison Morretta

    Through this book, students can contemplate that same question as they examine the facts of John Brown's life, the historical context in which he lived, and the legacy he left behind.

  • John Brown
    John Brown
    By Jon Sterngass

    Shields Green: I Guess I'll Go Back With The Old Man Shortly after Albert Hazlett and Osborne Anderson decided to flee the arsenal, theymetShields Green.During theraid, Greenhad been recruiting slavesfrom thenearby countryside to ...

  • John Brown: The Making of a Martyr
    By Robert Penn Warren

    Portrait of the tormented liberator by America's first poet laureate.

  • John Brown
    John Brown
    By William Elsey Connelley

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • John Brown
    John Brown
    By William Elsey Connelley

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • John Brown
    John Brown
    By Thomas Streissguth

    A brief biography of the man who fought against slavery in the Kansas Territory and who led a revolt at Harper's Ferry in 1859.

  • John Brown
    John Brown
    By W. E. B. Du Bois

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • John Brown: The Legend Revisited
    John Brown: The Legend Revisited
    By Merrill D. Peterson

    Peterson gives readers John Brown in his own day, but he also shows how the flaming abolitionist warrior's image--celebrated in art, literature, and journalism--has helped him shed some of his infamy to become a symbol of American idealism ...

  • John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant
    John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant
    By Raymond Lamont Brown

    Based on research in public, private and royal archives, as well as diaries and memoirs of those who knew Brown and interviews with his surviving relatives, this text analyses the relationship between Queen Victorian and Brown.

  • John Brown: His Fight for Freedom
    John Brown: His Fight for Freedom
    By John Hendrix

    In the late 1850s, at a time when many men and women spoke out against slavery, few had the same impact as John Brown, the infamous white abolitionist who backed his beliefs with unstoppable action.

  • John Brown: The Legend Revisited
    John Brown: The Legend Revisited
    By Merrill D. Peterson

    A fervent abolitionist, his New England reserve tempered by a childhood on the Ohio frontier, John Brown advocated arming fugitive slaves to fight for their freedom, an idea that impressed...

  • John Brown: An Address by Frederick Douglass
    John Brown: An Address by Frederick Douglass
    By Douglass Frederick

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • John Brown: The Cost of Freedom
    John Brown: The Cost of Freedom
    By Louis A. Decaro

    Rare illustrations add to the revelations in this book. Here is cutting edge research that overturns many conventional assumptions about John Brown-- abolitionist.

  • John Brown: Abolitionist
    By Virginia Brackett

    Profiles abolitionist John Brown, who, after invading the government armory at Harpers Ferry to gain weapons for a slave revolt, was defeated, convicted of treason, and hanged.