The Secret Six : John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement
By Otto Scott.
Description
The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement, including Notes, Bibliography, and Index, 375 pages. (First Edition, New York Times Book Co., 1979. Second Edition, The Foundation for American Education, 1987, as The Secret Six: The Fool as Martyr. Third Edition, Uncommon Books, Seattle, Wash., 1993, as The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement.) Unlike previous biographies of John Brown, this is the first to look at the rich men who funded his attack on Harper's Ferry. It looks into their backgrounds and personalities, their associations with Emerson, Thoreau, ...
ISBN(s)
0963838105, 9780963838100