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John Brown
Assumption College offers a dandy page on print and Internet
sources for "Bleeding Kansas":
http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/
Kansas/default.html
And this Public Broadcasting System (PBS) website on Africans
in America has information on "Bleeding Kansas":
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/
part4/4p2952.html
Here are full citations for some of the most recent books
on John Brown:
Finkelman, Paul, ed. His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses
to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid (Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 1995). An excellent collection
of essays on various aspects of Brown's life and place
in history.
Peterson, Merrill D. John Brown, The Legend Revisited
(Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002).
Reynolds, David S. John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man
Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded
Civil Rights (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005).
Rossbach, Jeffery S. Ambivalent Conspirators: John
Brown, the Secret Six, and a Theory of Slave Violence
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982).
Toledo, Gregory. The Hanging of Old Brown: A Story
of Slaves, Statesmen, and Redemption (Westport, CT.:
Praeger, 2002).
A good website for topics covered in Professor Mintz's
essay is WGBH's site for the "American Experience" special,
"John Brown's Holy War":
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/
As usual, the University of Virginia contributes an excellent
Web resource in its John Brown site:
http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/jbrown/master.html
The early biographies of Brown to which Professor Mintz
alludes are:
Malin, James Claude. John Brown and the Legend of Fifty-Six
(Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1942.
Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. XVII).
Redpath, James. Echoes of Harper's Ferry. (Boston:
Thayer and Eldridge, 1860).
Redpath, James. The Public Life of Capt. John Brown
(Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860).
Sanborn, F. B. Memoirs of John Brown (Concord,
MA: 1878).
Villard, Oswald Garrison. John Brown, 1800-1859: A
Biography Fifty Years After (Gloucester, MA:, P. Smith,
1965). A reprint of Villard's 1910 book.
And the article by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. that Professor
Mintz refers to is "The Causes of the Civil War: A Note
on Historical Sentimentalism," in the October 1949 Partisan
Review.
Herbert Aptheker's views on Brown can be found in his
introduction to this reprint: Du Bois, W. E. B. John
Brown. (Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus-Thomson Organization,
1973).
Other topics relating to John Brown:
For Brown's relations with African Americans, see:
Quarles, Benjamin. Allies for Freedom: Blacks and John
Brown (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974).
On Gerrit Smith, you might like to read:
Harlow, Ralph Volney. Gerrit Smith, Philanthropist
and Reformer (New York: H.Holt and Company, 1939).
This Gerrit Smith website is first-rate:
http://www.nyhistory.com/gerritsmith/harpers.htm
The issues created by the Fugitive Slave Law and resistance
to the statute are covered in:
Campbell, Stanley W. The Slave Catcher: Enforcement
of the Fugitive Slave Law. (Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1970).
For Brown and the Transcendentalists, see:
Gougeon, Len. Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery,
and Reform (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990).
Thoreau, Henry David. Political Writings. Nancy
L. Rosenblum, ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press,
1996).
Lloyd Benson provides a lively and useful collection of
contemporary writings on the Sumner affair in:
The Caning of Senator Sumner (Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth,
2004).
These studies give excellent background on the Kansas-Nebraska
Act and the ensuing campaigns in "Bleeding Kansas":
Etcheson, Nicole. Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty
in the Civil War Era (Lawrence: University Press of
Kansas, 2004).
Rawley, James A. Race and Politics: "Bleeding Kansas"
and the Coming of the Civil War (Philadelphia: Lippincott,
1969).
This reprint of a nineteenth-century compilation of Brown's
trial records may be convenient:
The Life, Trial, and Execution of Captain John Brown,
Known as "Old Brown of Ossawatomie." Compiled from
Official and Authentic Sources (New York: Da Capo Press,
1969).
The website for the Kennedy Farmhouse, from which Brown
launched his raid on Harpers Ferry, has some useful material
- especially in its sketches of the lives of the members
of Brown's party:
http://www.johnbrown.org/
The National Park Service website for Harpers Ferry provides
good background on the site of the raid:
http://www.nps.gov/hafe/
This PBS site has useful visual materials on the Harpers
Ferry raid:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2940.html
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