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Avenging Angel

Ron Field | Johnny Shumate | Alan Gilliland | Mark Stacey
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Analysis
assessment
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background
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Category=NHTS
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Civil War
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illustrated
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operations
small unit
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United Union Confederate States US

Product details

  • ISBN 9781849087575
  • Weight: 340g
  • Dimensions: 184 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Nov 2012
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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The Harpers Ferry raid confirmed for many Southerners the existence of a widespread Northern plot against slavery.

In fact, Brown had raised funds for his raid from Northern abolitionists. To arm the enslaved people, he ordered one thousand pikes from a Connecticut manufacturer. Letters to Governor Wise betrayed the mixed feelings people held for Brown. For some, he was simply insane and should not be hanged. For others, he was a martyr to the cause of abolition, and his quick trial and execution reflected the fear and arrogance of the Virginia slave-owning aristocracy. Many Northerners condemned Brown's actions but thought him right in his conviction that slavery had to end.

This up-to-date study reveals how John Brown's raid and subsequent execution further polarized North and South and made a solution of the slavery issue central to the national debate which ultimately led to Civil War in 1861.
About Ron Field | Alan Gilliland | Johnny Shumate | Mark Stacey
Ron Field is an internationally acknowledged expert on US military history. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1982, he taught high school history in the UK and US until his retirement in 2007. In 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, based in Washington, DC, and was awarded its Emerson Writing Award in 2013.

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