{"product_id":"the-tribunal-responses-to-john-brown-and-the-harpers-ferry-raid-the-john-harvard-library","title":"The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid (The John Harvard Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 Browns actions nonetheless altered the course of American history.  John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd have assembled an impressive and wide-ranging collection of responses to Browns raid: Browns own words  northern and southern reactions  international commentary  and reflections 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.  The Introduction describes the panic that Harpers Ferry created in the South  splitting the Democratic Party along sectional lines and altering the outcome of the 1860 presidential election. Without Brown  it speculates  the Civil War and emancipation would have been delayed by another four yearsprobably morewhich in turn might have disrupted emancipation movements in Brazil  Cuba  and even Russia. The Tribunal is essential reading for anyone interested in the Civil War era and the history of social protest movements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946432393269,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674048857","price":37.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674048850.jpg?v=1769948650","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-tribunal-responses-to-john-brown-and-the-harpers-ferry-raid-the-john-harvard-library","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}