Title: Recollections of seventy years
First published: 1909
Description: Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was born in 1821 at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, the fifth of seven children of Aaron and Lydia Leavitt Sanborn. He was active in the anti-slavery movement and wrote of that movement, John Brown and other abolistionists, and politics in general in the United States, 1854-1861.
Subjects: Politics and government, History and criticism, American literature, Antislavery movements, Slavery, Anti-slavery movements
Places: United States, Concord (Mass.)
People: John Brown (1800-1859)
Time periods: 1849-1861