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John Brown (Hardcover)
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John Brown (Hardcover)
Series: Mint Editions-Black Narratives
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Loot Price R357
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One of the preeminent Black scholars of his era traces the life and
bold aspirations of a man who devoted his life to opposing slavery
at any cost. W.E.B. Du Bois examines John Brown as a man as well as
a motive force behind the abolitionist sympathies that helped lead
to the Civil War. He traces Brown's sympathy for slaves to an
incident in his youth when he was warmly received by a family that
treated their slave with casual brutality. At the time it was
written, John Brown was widely considered a fanatic at best, a
lunatic at worst, but here he is seen clearly as a man driven by
his Christianity and his personal morals to oppose what he clearly
perceived as a tremendous wrong in society, and to do so regardless
of whatever toll it might take upon him. The author examines
Brown's impact on the minds of those who understood that the
abolitionist cause was supported primarily by Blacks, on the lives
of Blacks who discovered a white man willing to fight and die for
their freedom, and by the masses who found that slavery was not
only an actionable moral issue, but one of deadly urgency.
Originally published in 1909, on the 50th anniversary of Brown's
execution, this is W.E.B. Du Bois's only work of biography.
Although less known than the author's The Souls of Black Folk or
Black Reconstruction in America, John Brown remains a classic
distinguished by its author's deep understanding and eloquence.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of John Brown is both modern and readable.
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