John Brown
By: W.E.B. Du Bois ; edited and with an introduction by David Roediger.
Contributors: Roediger, David R.
Edition: 2001 Modern Library pbk. ed.
Series: The Modern Library classics
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Brown, John, 1800-1859; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Philosophy
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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 the greatest African American intellectuals of the twentieth century, W.E.B. Du Bois re-creates the story of Brown's life and death, illuminating the enduring significance of a man who, in Frederick Douglass's words, "began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-241) and index.
Originally published: Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs, 1909. With new introd.