Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-152) and index.
Contents:
pt. 1. Introduction : abolitionist, warrior, martyr, prophet -- Brown's early life -- John Brown and the rise of abolitionism -- Making Kansas bleed -- The plan -- The raid -- The trial -- Reckoning with John Brown -- the Harpers Ferry raid : dramatis personae -- pt. 2. The documents -- 1. The making of a radical abolitionist -- 1) John Brown, Words of Advice to the United States League of Gileadites, January 15, 1851 -- 2) Kansas Territorial Legislature, An Act to Punish Offenses Against Slave Property, 1855 -- 3) John Brown, Letter to Wife and Children, December 16, 1855 -- 4) Mahala Doyle and Louisa Jane Wilkinson, Accounts of the Pottawatomie Massacre, 1856 -- 5) John Brown, An Idea of Things in Kansas, 1857 -- 6) John Brown, John Brown's Parallels : Letter to the Editor of the New York Tribune, January 1859 -- 2. The raid and trial -- 7) John Brown, Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States, May 8, 1858 -- 8) Osborne Anderson, A Voice from Harper's Ferry, 1861 -- 9) John Brown, Interview with Senator James Mason, Representative Clement Vallandigham, and others, October 18, 1859 -- 10) Excerpts from the Trial of John Brown, 1859 -- Opening Remarks of John Brown to the Virginia Court, October 27, 1859 -- John Brown's Response to Claims of Insanity, October 28, 1859 -- Last Address of John Brown to the Virginia Court, November 2, 1859 -- 3. The making of a martyr -- 11) John Brown, Selected Prison Letters, October 21-December 2, 1859 --4. Responses to John Brown's raid -- 12) Northern and Southern Newspapers React to the Raid and Trail, 1859 -- New Hampshire patriot, The Harpers Ferry Affair, October 26, 1859 -- Petersburg (Virginia) Express, The Harpers Ferry Conspiracy, October 25, 2859 -- Albany, New York, Evening Journal, From the Philadelphia Press, November 30, 1859 -- 13) Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown, October 30, 1859 -- 14) Governor Henry Wise, Message to the Virginia Legislature, December 5, 1859 -- 15) U.S. Senate Select Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion, The Mason Report, June 15, 1860 -- 16) William W. Patton, John Brown's Body, 1862 -- Appendixes -- A chronology of John Brown and events of the Civil War era (1800-1865) -- Questions for consideration -- Selected bibliography.
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