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To raise up a nation : John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the making of a free country

William S. King narrates the coming of the Civil War, the war itself, and the emancipation process, through the intertwined lives of John Brown and Frederick Douglass.

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Main Author: King, William S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Yardley, Pennsylvania : Westholme, [2013].
Subjects and Genres:
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Influence.
Brown, John, > 1800-1859 > Influence.
Antislavery movements > United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • Life and Times
  • Bleeding Kansas
  • Raising an Army of One Hundred Volunteers
  • Carrying the War into Africa
  • An American Spartacus
  • A Setting Possessed of Imposing Grandeur
  • The Battle at Harper's Ferry
  • Year of Meteors
  • 1860
  • Terrible Swift Sword
  • His Truth Is Marching On
  • Buffeted by Sleet and by Storm
  • Lincoln's Emancipation
  • Men of Color, To Arms!
  • Battles for Liberty, Battles for Union
  • War for the Total Expiation of Slavery
  • One More River to Cross
  • Epilogue.

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