John Brown of Harper's Ferry: With Contemporary Prints, Photographs, and Maps

by Robert Alan Scott and John Anthony Scott

Book Overview

Describes the life of the abolitionist whose struggle to free American slaves resulted in the raid on Harpers Ferry. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816013470
• ISBN13: 9780816013470
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Facts on File
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

The exciting life of an exciting man!

If you want to get to know John Brown, his family, his life, his problems and his ways, you have to read this book, from his childhood to his death in Virginia after the raid of Harper's Ferry each station of his life is shown in detail (which makes it sometimes difficult to read with pure pleasure). Before I read this book I knew about Brown as a criminal, a fanatic, a murderer may be. Yes, he was... but you have to know what shaped him to be a fanatic and a murderer. His life was a struggle for freedom, and he was beat hard by life. He came on the wrong way or better: He went too far on the right one. This is a very exciting and helpful book! Just read it!