A01=Louis DeCaro Jr.
African American history
Author_Louis DeCaro Jr.
Baltimore American
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Charlestown
David Strother
Edward "Ned" House
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Frederick Douglass
George H. Hoyt
Governor Henry Wise
Harper's Ferry
Harper's Ferry raid
Hiram Griswold
Jailer Avis
John Brown
John W. Gallaher
Judge Richard Parker
Martyrdom
Mary Brown
Ned House
New York Herald
New York Illustrated News
New-York Daily Tribune
Political Imprisonment
Prosecutor Andrew Hunter
Samuel Chilton
Senator James Mason
Sheriff James Campbell
Simpson Donavin
W.W.B. Gallaher
Wendell Phillips
Product details
- ISBN 9781538119105
- Weight: 585g
- Dimensions: 147 x 221mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jun 2018
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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John Brown’s failed raid on the federal armory in Harper’s Ferry Virginia served as a vital precursor to the Civil War, but its importance to the struggle for justice is free standing and exceptional in the history of the United States. In Freedom's Dawn, Louis DeCaro, Jr., has written the first book devoted exclusively to Brown during the six weeks between his arrest and execution. DeCaro traces his evolution from prisoner to convicted felon, to a prophetic figure, then martyr, and finally the rise of his legacy. In doing so he touches upon major biographical themes in Brown’s story, but also upon antebellum political issues, violence and terrorism, and the themes of political imprisonment and martyrdom.
Louis DeCaro, Jr., associate professor of history at The Alliance Theological Seminary in New York City, is the author of Fire from the Midst of You: A Religious Life of John Brown (2002) as well as works on Malcolm X and the urban church.
