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To purge this land with blood : a biography of John Brown
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- Summary
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Provides an account of the life and career of antislavery activist John Brown, leader of the infamous raid on Harpers Ferry.
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- Creator
- Stephen B. Oates
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Second edition
- Amherst : University of Mass. Press, 1984
- Physical Details
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- x, 434 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0870234579, 9780870234576, 0870234587, 9780870234583
- OCLC
- ocm10725289
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-420) and index.
- pt. 1. Trial. First awakening ; A Calvinist upbringing ; Smarting under the rod of providence ; Ohio again ; Springfield crusader ; Feeling our dependence ; West to the promised land -- pt. 2. Pilgrimage. The wicked shall cease from troubling ; Signs and portents ; Bloody Pottawatomie ; War has commenced ; God will keep and deliver us ; John Brown of Osawatomie -- pt. 3. Prophecy. For the cause of liberty ; Railroad business on an extended scale ; The conspiracy begins ; My work ... my mission ; Men, get your arms ; Insurrection ; Let them hang me ; I, John Brown ; Beyond the gallows