TY - BOOK AU - Du Bois,W.E.B. AU - Oberholtzer,Ellis Paxson TI - John Brown T2 - American crisis biographies AV - E300 PY - 2020/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Brown, John, 1800-1859 KW - Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography KW - African Americans -- Civil rights -- Philosophy N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(biography); Release date is 2020-08-01; Produced by Richard Tonsing, Mary Glenn Krause, Jim Adcock and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress); Original publication data not identified N2 - "John Brown" by W. E. B. Du Bois is a biography published in 1909 about the white abolitionist John Brown. Du Bois traces Brown's journey from his Christian rural upbringing through failed business ventures to his radical war against slavery. The work portrays Brown as a biblical figure—prophet, revolutionary, and martyr—whose devotion to abolition was sparked by witnessing brutal treatment of an enslaved boy in his youth. Du Bois examines Brown's significance as a white abolitionist and explores themes of socialism and social Darwinism. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62799 ER -