John Brown Reader: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois & Others

A John Brown Reader: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois & Others

By John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and W E B Du Bois

Besides a selection of letters by the abolitionist himself, the original collection includes an excerpt from W. E. B. Du Bois's biography, John Brown , addresses by Frederick Douglass and Ralph Waldo Emerson, poetry by Louisa May Alcott, and more.

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Publisher: Dover Publications
Publish Date: 01/13/2021
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780486845623
ISBN-10: 0486845621
Language: English

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This original collection gathers a remarkably diverse body of literature about John Brown, the strident anti-slavery leader. Besides a selection of letters by the abolitionist himself, the book includes a significant excerpt from W. E. B. Du Bois's biography, John Brown, addresses by Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau, poetry by Louisa May Alcott and Herman Melville, and much more.

About the Authors

John Brown is a lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Politics, Maynooth University, Ireland.

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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was born Frederick Bailey in eastern Maryland, the son of an enslaved mother and an unknown white man. In 1838 he escaped to the North and took the name Douglass.

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W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was an African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and socialist. Born in Massachusetts, he was raised in Great Barrington, an integrated community.

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