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For Further Reading on John Brown


McGinty, Brian. John Brown's Trial. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Forthcoming.

McGlone, Robert E. John Brown's War Against Slavery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Oates, Stephen B. To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

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.

Russo, Peggy A. and Paul Finkelman. ed. Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005.

Villard, Oswald Garrison. John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910.


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