A John Brown Reader
โ Scribed by John Brown; Frederick Douglass; W. E. B. Du Bois
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Series
- Dover Thrift Editions: American History
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
This original collection gathers a remarkably diverse body of literature about John Brown, the strident anti-slavery leader. Besides a selection of letters by the abolitionist himself, the book includes a significant excerpt from W. E. B. Du Bois's biography, John Brown, addresses by Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau, poetry by Louisa May Alcott and Herman Melville, and much more.
โฆ Subjects
Biography & Autobiography; History; Literary Criticism; Nonfiction; BIO032000; HIS036050; LCO002010
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