Creating the John Brown Legend

Name: Creating the John Brown Legend
Brand: McFarland
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By Beck, Janet Kemper

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One of the triggering events of the Civil War helped divide a nation but also launched a cannonade of persuasive essays and propaganda. Early press reaction to John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry ranged from indignant horror in the South to stunned disbelief in the North. Brown's supporters wielded great power with their pens: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Lydia Maria Child. This book explores the moment when literature and history collided and literature rewrote history. This volume features 30 photographs, maps, proclamations and broadsides and a detailed timeline of events surrounding the raid.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 216
Age Recommendation:: 18 and up
Publisher:: McFarland
Publication Date:: 2009-04-07
ISBN / EAN:: 9780786433452
Weight:: 416 g
Dimensions:: 18/25/1 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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