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John Brown s Trial
Author | : Brian McGinty |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674035171 |
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Here, Brian McGinty provides a comprehensive account of the trial of abolitionist John Brown. After the jury returned its guilty verdict, an appeal was quickly disposed of, and the governor of Virginia refused to grant clemency.
The Trial of John Brown
Author | : Thomas Fleming |
Publsiher | : New Word City |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 2018-01-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781612308661 |
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Even his abolitionist allies thought his attack on Harpers Ferry insane, but, as this short-form book by New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming points out, John Brown sensed that his trial and death would ignite the nation's conscience.
John Brown s Trial
Author | : Brian McGinty |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674054226 |
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Mixing idealism with violence, abolitionist John Brown cut a wide swath across the United States before winding up in Virginia, where he led an attack on the U.S. armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Supported by a “provisional army” of 21 men, Brown hoped to rouse the slaves in Virginia to rebellion. But he was quickly captured and, after a short but stormy trial, hanged on December 2, 1859. Brian McGinty provides the first comprehensive account of the trial, which raised important questions about jurisdiction, judicial fairness, and the nature of treason under the American constitutional system. After the jury returned its guilty verdict, an appeal was quickly disposed of, and the governor of Virginia refused to grant clemency. Brown met his death not as an enemy of the American people but as an enemy of Southern slaveholders. Historians have long credited the Harpers Ferry raid with rousing the country to a fever pitch of sectionalism and accelerating the onset of the Civil War. McGinty sees Brown’s trial, rather than his raid, as the real turning point in the struggle between North and South. If Brown had been killed in Harpers Ferry (as he nearly was), or condemned to death in a summary court-martial, his raid would have had little effect. Because he survived to stand trial before a Virginia judge and jury, and argue the case against slavery with an eloquence that reverberated around the world, he became a symbol of the struggle to abolish slavery and a martyr to the cause of freedom.
Trial of John Brown
Author | : John Brown |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1889* |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : OCLC:506065381 |
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John Brown s Spy
Author | : Steven Lubet |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300180497 |
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Describes the story of the man who was entrusted with all of the details of John Brown's plans to capture the Harper's Ferry armory in 1859 and how he was hunted down for a $1,000 bounty and tried as a spy.
Our Fiery Trial
Author | : Stephen B. Oates |
Publsiher | : Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015004772235 |
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In this collection of ten interrelated essays, Stephen B. Oates focuses on the American Civil War era and several of its leading figures. While arguing 'the need for unflinching realism and a humanistic approach in the study of the past, ' Oates critically examines alternative interpretive practices, particularly those serving polemical, political, or mythical standards.
The Life Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown
Author | : Robert M. De Witt |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : HARVARD:32044024262727 |
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John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, then in Virginia, Oct. 25-Nov. 2, 1859, for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder.
John Brown s Raid on Harpers Ferry
Author | : Jonathan Earle |
Publsiher | : Macmillan Higher Education |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2018-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781319241681 |
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Despised and admired during his life and after his execution, the abolitionist John Brown polarized the nation and remains one of the most controversial figures in U.S. history. His 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, failed to inspire a slave revolt and establish a free Appalachian state but became a crucial turning point in the fight against slavery and a catalyst for the violence that ignited the Civil War. Jonathan Earle’s volume presents Brown as neither villain nor martyr, but rather as a man whose deeply held abolitionist beliefs gradually evolved to a point where he saw violence as inevitable. Earle’s introduction and his collection of documents demonstrate the evolution of Brown’s abolitionist strategies and the symbolism his actions took on in the press, the government, and the wider culture. The featured documents include Brown’s own writings, eyewitness accounts, government reports, and articles from the popular press and from leading intellectuals. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, a list of important figures, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support.