Creating the John Brown Legend : Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Child and Higginson in Defense of the Raid on Harpers Ferry Paperback / softback
by Janet Kemper Beck
Paperback / softback
Description
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 few supporters came from diverse perspectives and 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:214 pages, 30 photographs
- Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication Date:27/03/2009
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- ISBN:9780786433452
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:214 pages, 30 photographs
- Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication Date:27/03/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780786433452