David Reynolds: John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights from blacks Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 24 min 96 sec ✓ Published: 17-Feb-2012
Description: David S. Reynolds, Distinguished Professor of English at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, and a Bancroft Prize winner, reassesses the legacy of John Brown, who was hanged for his role in the October 1859 raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry. Reynolds states that Brown did not live on the fringe of American life, but was at the very center of it. As Reynolds discusses in his book John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Ci
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