The tribunal
Subtitle: responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid
By: edited by John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd
Series: The John Harvard Library
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9780674048850
Subjects: Sources; History
Description: "When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a biblical uprising of millions of armed bondsmen, thus ridding the nation of the scourge of slavery. The insurrection did not happen, and Brown and the other surviving raiders were quickly captured and executed. This landmark anthology, which collects contemporary speeches, letters, newspaper articles, journals, poems, and songs, demonstrates that Brown's actions nonetheless altered the course of American history. John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd have assembled an impressive and wide-ranging collection of responses to Brown's raid: Brown's own words, Northern and Southern reactions, international commentary, and reflection from the Civil War and Reconstruction era. Represented here are all the figures one would expect to see (Lincoln, Thoreau, Frederick Douglass), many surprises (John Wilkes Booth, Karl Marx, Giuseppe Garibaldi), as well as free and enslaved blacks and white citizens. The result is a book that views Brown from multiple vantage points."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In his own words; title: Northern responses; title: Southern responses; title: International responses.