The skilled training of both the historian and the lawyer are clearly in evidence in this learned, thorough and dramatic telling of the trial of one of history’s most famous abolitionists. McGinty argues that it was really the trial of John Brown and not his failed attack on Harper’s Ferry that was pivotal in bringing to a head the long-held and growing schism between North and South. Chance seems to have played a role as numerous peculiarities of both the raid and the trial conspired to make Brown into a galvanizing figure for the fight against slavery. Mike C.

John Brown's Trial (Hardcover)

By Brian McGinty

$27.95

ISBN-13: 9780674035171
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Published: Harvard University Press, 10/2009

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