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Essential Documents Reader for John Brown
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry is often the topic of study in classrooms and American history.Professor Jonathan Earle's book is exactly what is needed to understand his thinking, by publishing most of the agreements and articles that Brown wrote throughout the years 1851 - 1859.I research and write about John Brown frequently -- most recently with a chronology of his photo portraits (daguerreotypes) John Brown Photo Chronology; catalog of the exhibition at Harpers Ferry 2009.This documents book has what I wanted to reference, all in one place.

John Brown's Effort To Purge the Crime of Slavery With His Own Blood
John Brown's Raid On Harpers Ferry: A Brief History With Documents, Jonathan Earle, Bedford St. Martins Press, 158 pp., selected bibliography, index, 3 illustrations, 2 maps, questions for consideration, 2008, paperback, $12.95

On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown and 19 others seized the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. The actions of Brown's men brought national attention to the emotional divisions concerning slavery.

In the summer of 1859, John Brown with 21 others took up residence near Harpers Ferry on the Kennedy farm a few miles northeast of Harpers Ferry in Maryland. He trained a group of twenty-two men, including his sons Oliver, Owen, and Watson, in military maneuvers. On the night of Sunday, October 16, Brown and all but three of the men seized the armory, Halls Rifle Works and hostages from nearby farms. The first Harpers Ferry citizen to confront the raiders was Hayward Shepard, an African-American railroad baggage handler.

In general, the plan was to seize weapons and to add African-Americans to the party. Within 12 hours from the beginning of the raid, authorities in Washington ordered Colonel Robert E. Lee and an infantry detachment to Harpers Ferry. At 6:30a on the morning of Tuesday, October 18, Lee ordered a group of men to storm the engine house. In the brief but dramatic assault, Brown was received a serious head wound. Brown was taken to the Jefferson County seat of Charles Town for trial.

In his brief history of Brown and his raid, Jonathan Earle sketches the key elements of Brown's life, the political condition of the nation, the raid and immediate responses to it. One historian has describes the responses to John Brown as being being in one of two categories. Brown was incompetent and a sociopath or Brown was martyred by slaveholders.

Earle's work is among the best concise introductions to the event of 150 years ago. Brown receives a new biography about every 20 years. Most recently, Stephen Oates' To Purge This Land With Blood and David Reynolds' John Brown have done much to redeem Brown's reputation. Previous biographies from the 1920s through the 1960 focus on theirrationality and religious fundamentalism of the man. As justice and race issues came to the fore beginning in the 1950s through the present day, Brown's life and crimes have been reinterpeted in the light of the issues of the 1850s and 1860s.

Additionally, terroristic acts motivated by religion are more common today than Americans wish. Brown's understood that America was at war in the 1850s. The enslavement of about four million Africans was warfare against the Judeo-Christian God's desire for complete equality among all humans. Most abolitionists did not see Blacks, enslaved or free, to be equal. Abolitionists for the most part wished to do away with slavery but not inequality. Brown wished to do away with both slavery and inequality.

Short, and full of too much background
This book put simply is very short, it is mostly made up of the documents part. I had to use this for a U.S. History class and I can still not figure out why our professor had us use this. Unless your looking for specific information on John Brown as a person, I would not recommend this book.

Does conscience outweigh unjust social laws?
I'm a longtime fan of the Bedford Series in History and Culture, and this new volume on John Brown's raid only reenforces my admiration.It offers a good introduction to the events leading up to the raid, the raid itself, and its immediate aftermath, as well as a judicious selection of pertinent contemporaneous documents:Brown's writings during the Blood Kansas months as well as a hair-raising account of the Pottawatomie massacre by a couple of survivors; Brown's writings about the raid itself, including the constitution for the free state he intended to found, transcripts of pre-trial interviews, snippets of his trial testimony, and several letters he wrote while awaiting execution; and newspaper editorials commenting on the raid, Thoreau's purple defense of Brown, Virginia Governor Henry Wise's address to the Commonwealth's legislature, and excerpts from the congressional Mason Report.There's also a good map of Harper's Ferry, a helpful chronology, and a bibliography.

Perhaps it's beyond the scope of this volume.But I would've liked to have seen some discussion, both in the introduction and in the compiled documents, about the deep ethical and political questions raised by the raid.As Brown says in his letters and pre-trial interviews, the raid was justified (in his mind) by a "higher law" appeal.The Constitution may sanction slavery, but conscience and the word of God do not.But as Governor Wise (as well as Abraham Lincoln, for that matter) responded, the law of the land is and ought to be inviolable.Appeals to higher laws are too subjective--too anarchic, as Wise says--to be allowed.The fascinating thing about this debate is that it's really quite independent of how one thinks about Brown.One can easily conclude (for example) that he was a fanatic who was morally wrong to attack Harper's Ferry, while still affirming that there are times in which higher law appeals are not only reasonable but morally obligatory.

When does moral law trump social law?Ought conscience be given priority in a conflict between it and the law of the land?This is really the core issue that Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry raises, and it's still very much a live one.Ought legal injustices to be tolerated until the law can be changed?But what if the powers that be refuse to change the laws?What then?

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