Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army by Eugene L. Meyer

Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army

Eugene L. Meyer

304 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging slow-paced
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Late on the evening of October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of 18 raiders descended on Harpers Ferry at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized the federal arsen...

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