Title: Cloudsplitter
Subtitle: A Novel
First published: February 17, 1998
Description: From book jacket: Narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, **Cloudsplitter** vividly re-creates the antislavery movement of the 1840s and traces it through the brutal guerrilla warfare of Bloody Kansas, culminating in the a haunting, powerful re-creation of Brown's insurrectionary raid on Harpers Ferry.
Subjects: american fiction, fiction, Antislavery movements, historical fiction, Fiction, historical, general, West virginia, fiction, Fiction, Abolitionists, History, John Brown's Raid (Harpers Ferry, West Virginia : 1859) fast (OCoLC)fst01353470
Places: United States, Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
People: John Brown (1800-1859)
Time periods: John Brown's Raid, 1859
LC classification: PS3552 A49 C56 1998