@article{694391,
      author = {Stauffer, John, and Trodd, Zoe.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/694391},
      title = {The tribunal : responses to John Brown and the Harpers  Ferry Raid /},
      publisher = {Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,},
      abstract = {"When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the  federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he  envisioned a biblical uprising of millions of armed  bondsmen, thus ridding the nation of the scourge of  slavery. The insurrection did not happen, and Brown and the  other surviving raiders were quickly captured and executed.  This landmark anthology, which collects contemporary  speeches, letters, newspaper articles, journals, poems, and  songs, demonstrates that Brown's actions nonetheless  altered the course of American history. John Stauffer and  Zoe Trodd have assembled an impressive and wide-ranging  collection of responses to Brown's raid: Brown's own words,  Northern and Southern reactions, international commentary,  and reflection from the Civil War and Reconstruction era.  Represented here are all the figures one would expect to  see (Lincoln, Thoreau, Frederick Douglass), many surprises  (John Wilkes Booth, Karl Marx, Giuseppe Garibaldi), as well  as free and enslaved blacks and white citizens. The result  is a book that views Brown from multiple vantage  points."--Jacket.},
      recid = {694391},
      pages = {lix, 570 pages ;},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      year = {2012},
}