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Midnight Rising - John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (Paperback)
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Midnight Rising - John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (Paperback)
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List price R572
Loot Price R526
Discovery Miles 5 260
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Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on
Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few
Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a
desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, "Midnight Rising"
portrays Brown's uprising in vivid colour, revealing a country on
the brink of explosive conflict. 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 teenage daughter, three of his sons, and a guerrilla
band that included former slaves and a dashing spy. On October 17,
the raiders seized Harpers Ferry, stunning the nation and prompting
a counter-attack led by Robert E. Lee. After Brown's capture, his
defiant eloquence galvanized the North and appalled the South,
which considered Brown a terrorist. The raid also helped elect
Abraham Lincoln, who later began to fulfil Brown's dream with the
Emancipation Proclamation, a measure he called "a John Brown raid,
on a gigantic scale."
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