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"In the history of slavery and its legacy, the figure of John Brown looms large as a righteous and bloody abolitionist martyr whose insurrection against slavery polarized a nation and precipitated the Civil War. In this brilliant but long-forgotten cultural biography by one of t…
"In the history of slavery and its legacy, the figure of John Brown looms large as a righteous and bloody abolitionist martyr whose insurrection against slavery polarized a nation and precipitated the Civil War. In this brilliant but long-forgotten cultural biography by one of t…
Civil War historian James McPherson offers an analysis of the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. It demonstrates the successful role played by rights activists during and after the Civil War, as they evolved from desp…
Frederick Douglass and George Fitzhugh disagreed on virtually every major issue of the day. On slavery, women's rights, and the preservation of the Union their opinions were diametrically opposed. Where Douglass thundered against the evils of slavery, Fitzhugh counted its many a…
