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To purge this land with blood : a biography of John Brown / Stephen B. Oates.
Provides an account of the life and career of antislavery activist John Brown, leader of the infamous raid on Harpers Ferry.
Record details
- ISBN: 0870234579
- ISBN: 9780870234576
- ISBN: 0870234587
- ISBN: 9780870234583
- Physical Description: x, 434 pages, [32] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: 2nd ed.
- Publisher: Amherst : University of Mass. Press, 1984.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-420) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | pt. 1. Trial. First awakening ; A Calvinist upbringing ; Smarting under the rod of providence ; Ohio again ; Springfield crusader ; Feeling our dependence ; West to the promised land -- pt. 2. Pilgrimage. The wicked shall cease from troubling ; Signs and portents ; Bloody Pottawatomie ; War has commenced ; God will keep and deliver us ; John Brown of Osawatomie -- pt. 3. Prophecy. For the cause of liberty ; Railroad business on an extended scale ; The conspiracy begins ; My work ... my mission ; Men, get your arms ; Insurrection ; Let them hang me ; I, John Brown ; Beyond the gallows. |
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Subject: | Brown, John, 1800-1859. Abolitionists > United States > Biography. |