John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

Authors

Larry Olpin

ISBN

375411887

Price

$35.00, hardcover

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Abstract

Cultural context

Viewing Brown from the North and South

Shortly after John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, Salmon P. Chase, later to become President Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, wrote to the editor of the Cincinnati Gazete: Poor old man! How sadly misled by his own....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.7.4.20

Recommended Citation

Olpin, Larry (2005) "John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 7 : Iss. 4 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.7.4.20
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol7/iss4/20