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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town-with Brown, who believes he's a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry-whom Brown nicknames Little Onion-conceals his true identity as he struggles...
2) John Brown, abolitionist: the man who killed slavery, sparked the Civil War, and seeded civil rights
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Pub. Date
2005.
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x, 578 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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John Brown, the controversial Abolitionist who used terrorist tactics against slavery, single-handedly changed the course of American history. This biography by critic and cultural biographer Reynolds brings to life the Puritan warrior who gripped slavery by the throat and triggered the Civil War. When does principled resistance become anarchic brutality? How can a murderer be viewed as a heroic freedom fighter? The case of John Brown opens windows...
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Pub. Date
2012.
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80 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
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English
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The Harpers Ferry raid confirmed for many Southerners the existence of a widespread Northern plot against slavery. In fact, Brown had raised funds for his raid from Northern abolitionists. To arm the slaves, he ordered one thousand pikes from a Connecticut manufacturer. Letters to Governor Wise betrayed the mixed feelings people held for Brown. For some, he was simply insane and should not be hanged. For others, he was a martyr to the cause of abolition,...
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English
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In this book the author tells the tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war. Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, this work portrays Brown's uprising revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
Description
Examines the life of abolitionist John Brown and the raid he led on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859, exploring his religious fanaticism and belief in "righteous violence," --and committment to domestic terrorism.
7) The zealot and the emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom
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English
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"What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to do whatever was necessary...
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English
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"From July 4, 1845 to September 6, 1847 Henry David Thoreau lived alone in the cabin he built on the shores of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts. Walden is the classic account of his stay--his experiment in essential living. This book is framed as a narrative of the cycle of one year, beginning with summer. Thoreau uses the changes of the day, the seasons, and the year to symbolize the quiet revolution that is going on inside him. His specific...
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English
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From a hermit's shack on an isolated California mountaintop, Owen Brown, the only surviving son of abolitionist John Brown, reminisces over his role in his father's bloody crusade -- from maintaining the Underground Railroad in upstate New York to battling pro-slavery settlers in Kansas to the fateful raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Massive in scope and brimming with love, hatred, revenge, and unbridled ego, Cloudsplitter is a dazzling...
10) Santa Fe Trail
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this historical drama, Jeb Stuart, the famed Southern cavalryman arrives at West Point, where he befriends George Armstrong Custer. Both compete for the attention of "Kit Carson" Halliday. As a punishment for fighting with fellow classmates, both men are sent to an outpost in Kansas where they must battle the abolitionist John Brown. This experience causes them to examine their personal feelings about slavery.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 335 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this Limited Event Series based on the award-winning novel. The story is told from the point of view of "Onion," a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's motley family of abolitionist soldiers battling slavery in Kansas, and eventually finds himself in the famous 1859 Army depot raid at Harpers Ferry, an inciting incident of the Civil War. It's a humorous and dramatic tale of Antebellum...
14) John Brown
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Pub. Date
[1950]
Physical Desc
181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Flashman papers volume 10
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
394 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Series
Great American Western volume 9
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 389 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of four classic American westerns.
Kansas Pacific: A military officer is charged with the task of halting sabotage of the Kansas Pacific Railroad at the hands of Southern allies as it is extending west in the pre-dawning of the Civil War.
Sante Fe Trail: Four West Point cadets are caught in the fury of John Brown's pre-Civil War insurrection in Kansas in this story of Jeb Stuart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history"--Container.
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
Description
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.
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