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).

PICTURE CREDITS

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: Title page, [8]-9, [16]-17, [24] (right), [26] (drawing), [28] (inset), [31], [32]-33, [37] (drawing), [40]-41, [45], [47] (drawing), [48], [53], [54]-55, [56], [58]-59; Library of Congress: [2], [3], [6], [19], [20], [21], [22] (left & center), [24] (left), [26] (portraits), [28], [36], [37] (inset), [39], [42], [44], [46], [50], [51], [52], [57]; Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka: [4], [5], [22] (right); U.S. Marine Corps Museum: [47] (portrait); Boyd B. Stutler Collection, through the courtesy of Stephen B. Oates: [11] (Howe & Stearns); John Brown Collection, Columbus University Libraries: [11] (Sanborn & Parker); Public Library, City of Boston: [11] (Smith); Boston Atheneum: [11] (Higginson); Robert Lautman: [cover] (John Brown’s Fort).

★U.S. Government Printing Office 1973 0 521 267 Reprint 1990

Footnotes

[1]Originally published in The North American Review, December 1885.