A John Brown Reader

Name: A John Brown Reader
Price: 8.10 USD
Availability: PreOrder
ISBN: 9780486845623

By: Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois & Others

Product Information

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Title: A John Brown Reader
By: Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois & Others
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 256
Vendor: Dover Publications
Publication Date: 2021

Dimensions: 8.00 X 5.00 (inches)
Weight: 2 pounds
ISBN: 0486845621
ISBN-13: 9780486845623
Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Stock No: WW845626

Publisher's Description

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This original collection gathers a remarkably diverse body of literature about John Brown, the strident anti-slavery leader. Besides a selection of letters by the abolitionist himself, the book includes a significant excerpt from W. E. B. Du Bois's biography, John Brown, addresses by Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau, poetry by Louisa May Alcott and Herman Melville, and much more.

Author Bio

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John Brown (1800–1859) was an American abolitionist. Brown advocated the use of armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. He first gained national attention when he led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas crisis of 1856.