Captured by United States Marines at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, a
fifty-nine year old farmer was quickly brought to trial in nearby
Charlestown and convicted of three capital crimes: treason against
the Commonwealth of Virginia; conspiring with slaves to rebel; and
murder. In a field on the outskirts of town he was hanged before
fifteen hundred soldiers. Colonel Robert E. Lee, Professor Thomas
J. Jackson, and John Wilkes Booth stood watching. "The Hanging of
Old Brown" attempts to remove the veils that separate the
contemporary observer from an understanding of the events and the
convictions that brought John Brown to a Virginia scaffold ready to
die.
Brown struggled to find redemption for himself and his nation.
His war on slavery and eventual execution would reap the whirlwinds
that would herald the destruction of slavery. Beginning with events
of 1776, Toledo provides the historical context of John Brown's
war, enabling readers to approach this abolitionist visionary with
a better understanding of the period that defined him. Toledo hopes
to dispel notions that Brown was a mere fanatic or deranged
militant. This work invites readers to become acquainted with a man
who is, in the end, both flawed and heroic, always deliberate, and
ultimately triumphant.
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