SELECTED READING LIST
Joseph Barry, The Strange Story of Harper’s Ferry With Legends of The Surrounding Country, Martinsburg, W. Va., 1903.
Richard O. Boyer, The Legend of John Brown: A Biography and A History, New York, 1973.
Louis Filler, The Crusade Against Slavery, 1830-1860, New York, 1960.
Stephen B. Oates, To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown, New York, 1970.
Louis Ruchames, ed., John Brown: The Making of a Revolutionary, New York, 1969. (Originally published under the title A John Brown Reader.)
Franklin B. Sanborn, Life and Letters of John Brown, Boston, 1885.
Kenneth M. Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South, New York, 1956.
Edward Stone, ed., Incident at Harper’s Ferry, Englewood Cliffs, 1956.
Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After, Boston and New York, 1911 (2d edition, 1943).