
On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, leaving fifteen people dead. Viewed in the North as a saint of freedom and in the South as the devil incarnate, Brown was a visionary who not only foretold but made inevitable the bloody apocalypse...

A fictional account of the life of John Brown portrays his experiences as the son of Ohio abolitionists, the doting father of twenty children, and a chronic failure as a businessman.

