Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War

Tony Horwitz

382 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

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Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland, joined by his teenag...

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