John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After

John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After
ISBN-10
0795008236
ISBN-13
9780795008238
Category
Biography & Autobiography / General
Pages
738
Language
English
Published
1910
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Author
Oswald Garrison Villard

Description

The present volume is inspired by a belief that fifty years after the Harper's Ferry tragedy, the time is ripe for a study of John Brown, free from bias, from the errors in taste and fact of the mere panegyrist, and from the blind prejudice of those who can see in John Brown nothing but a criminal. The pages that follow were written to detract from or champion no man or set of men, but to put forth the essential truths of history as far as ascertainable, and to judge Brown, his followers and associates in the light thereof. -- Adapted from the preface.

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