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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town -- with Brown, who believes he's a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity as he...
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Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
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In the summer of 1859, fifteen-year-old Annie travels to the Maryland farm where her father, John Brown, is secretly assembling his provisional army prior to their raid on the United States arsenal at nearby Harpers Ferry.
6) Emperor
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Inspired by the legend of Shields 'Emperor' Green, a descendant of African kings turned outlaw slave in the pre-Civil War South. Seeking freedom for his family, Emperor fights his way north, joining the daring raid on Harper's Ferry and helping alter the course of American history.
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Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 18
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In this book the author tells the tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war. Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, this work portrays Brown's uprising revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant...
13) Santa Fe trail
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Follows the lives of Jeb Stuart (Flynn), George Custer (Reagan) and other characters in the years before the Civil War. The West Point graduates must hunt down abolitionist raider John Brown. Their conflict is deepened by their differing views over the issue of slavery and Brown's abolitionist cause. Friendship and dedication to duty carry them through but the storm clouds of Civil War can be seen on the horizon.
16) The zealot and the emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom
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Pub. Date
2020
Description
"What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to do whatever was necessary...