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title	:	John Brown : A Biography American History Through Literature
author	:	Du Bois, W. E. B.; Smith, John David
publisher	:	ME Sharpe, Inc.
isbn10 | asin	:	1563249715
print isbn13	:	9781563249716
ebook isbn13	:	9780585001654
language	:	English
subject	Brown, John, --1800-1859, Abolitionists--United States--Biography, Du Bois, W. E. B.--(William Edward Burghardt),--1868-1963--Views on human rights, African-Americans--Civil rights--Philosophy.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	E451.D8 1997eb
ddc	:	973.6/8/092
subject	:	Brown, John, --1800-1859, Abolitionists--United States--Biography, Du Bois, W. E. B.--(William Edward Burghardt),--1868-1963--Views on human rights, African-Americans--Civil rights--Philosophy.

Page i JOHN BROWN

Page ii Paul Finkelman Series Editor FREEDOM ROAD Howard Fast Introduction by Eric Foner JOHN RANDOLPH Henry Adams Introduction by Robert McColley THE LIFE OF WASHINGTON Mason L. Weems Introduction by Peter S. Onuf GETTYSBURG Edited by Earl Schenk Miers and Richard A. Brown Foreword by James I. Robertson, Jr. CLOTEL; OR, THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER William Wells Brown Introduction by Joan E. Cashin AN ENQUIRY INTO THE INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL FACULTIES, AND LITERATURE OF NEGROES Henri Grgoire Introduction by Graham Russell Hodges JOHN BROWN W.E. Burghardt Du Bois Introduction by John David Smith

Page iii JOHN BROWN a biography by W.E.B. DuBOIS A new edition with primary documents and introduction by JOHN DAVID SMITH M.E. Sharpe Armonk, New York London, England

Page iv Copyright 1997 by M. E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, New York 10504. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. John Brown / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois. A new ed. with primary documents and introduction / by John David Smith. p. cm. - (American history through literature) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-56324-971-5 (hardcover: alk. paper). ISBN 1-56324 972-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Brown, John, 1800-1859. 2. Abolitionists-United States-Biography. 3. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 Views on human rights. 4. Afro-Americans-Civil rights-Philosophy. I. Smith, John David, 1949 II. Title. III. Series. E451.D8 1997 973.6'8'092-dc21 [B] 96-48132 CIP Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z 39.48-1984. BM(c) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 BM (p) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21

Page v To the memory of Elizabeth

Page vii CONTENTS Series Foreword by Paul Finkelman ix Introduction by John David Smith xi Preface xxv Chronology xxvii I Africa and America 1 II The Making of the Man 4 III The Wanderjahre 8 IV The Shepherd of the Sheep 19 V The Vision of the Damned 33 VI The Call of Kansas 58 VII The Swamp of the Swan 70 VIII The Great Plan 98 IX The Black Phalanx 117 X The Great Black Way 137 XI The Blow 155 XII The Riddle of the Sphinx 172 XIII

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