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Article: "His truth is marching on": John Brown and the fight for racial justice.(John Brown: Abolitionist, the Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights)(Book review)
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- Civil War History
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- June 1, 2006
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David S. Reynolds. John Brown: Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. (New York: Knopf, 2005), 592 pp.
Few figures in American history have been the subject of so much historiographical controversy as John Brown. Like the scholarly debates over the causes of the Civil War and its significance, the early literature on John Brown is suffused with the passions of the participants in the sectional conflict over slavery and the prejudices of their historical heirs. Only in the post-Civil Rights era has John Brown received consistently favorable treatment at the hands of historians and writers, whose admiration for his ...
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