Lost in the Library: A Story of Patience Fortitude

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People Executed by Virginia, John Brown, Nat Turner, John Allen Muhammad, List of Individuals Executed in Virginia, Briley Brothers, Gabriel Prosser, Floyd Allen, William Morva, Roger Keith Coleman, John Yancey Schmitt, Claude Bloodgood, Dexter Lee Vinson, Aaron Dwight Stevens, Brandon Hedrick, Earl Bramblett, Timothy Spencer, Morris Mason, Virginia Christian, Frank James Coppola, Dawud M. Mu'min, Percy Levar Walton, Linwood Earl Briley, James Dyral Briley, Mir Aimal Kasi. Excerpt: John Brown (May 9, 1800 December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist, who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859. President Abraham Lincoln said he was a "misguided fanatic" and Brown has been called "the most controversial of all 19th-century Americans." Brown's actions are often referred to as "patriotic treason", depicting both sides of the argument. John Brown's attempt in 1859 to start a liberation movement among enslaved African Americans in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) electrified the nation. He was tried for treason against the state of Virginia, the murder of five proslavery Southerners, and inciting a slave insurrection and was subsequently hanged. Southerners alleged that his rebellion was the tip of the abolitionist iceberg and represented the wishes of the Republican Party. Historians agree that the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859 escalated tensions that, a year later, led to secession and the American Civil War. Brown first gained attention when he led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas crisis. Unlike most other Northerners, who advocated peaceful resistance to... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=77323