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  1. John Brown
  2. PREFACE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. CHRONOLOGY
    1. Boyhood and Youth
    2. The Tanner
    3. The Shepherd
    4. In Kansas
    5. The Abolitionist
    6. The Harper’s Ferry Raid
  5. CHAPTER I AFRICA AND AMERICA
  6. CHAPTER II THE MAKING OF THE MAN
  7. CHAPTER III THE WANDERJAHRE
  8. CHAPTER IV THE SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP
  9. CHAPTER V THE VISION OF THE DAMNED
  10. CHAPTER VI THE CALL OF KANSAS
  11. CHAPTER VII THE SWAMP OF THE SWAN
  12. CHAPTER VIII THE GREAT PLAN
  13. CHAPTER IX THE BLACK PHALANX
  14. CHAPTER X THE GREAT BLACK WAY
  15. CHAPTER XI THE BLOW
  16. CHAPTER XII THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX
  17. CHAPTER XIII THE LEGACY OF JOHN BROWN
  18. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  19. INDEX
  20. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE

152. Reminiscences of Dr. Wayland, Sanborn, p. 381.

153. Reports of Senate Committees, 36th Congress, 1st Session, No. 278, Testimony of Richard Realf, p. 96.

154. Hinton, pp. 614–615.

155. Letter to Augustus Wattles, 1857, in Sanborn, p. 393.

156. Confession of John E. Cook in Hinton, pp. 700–701.

157. Richman, John Brown Among the Quakers, pp. 20–21.

158. Richman, pp. 28–29.

159. Hinton, pp. 156–157.

160. Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, pp. 385–386.

161. Letter to Theodore Parker, 1858, in Sanborn, pp. 434–435.

162. Letter to Higginson, 1858, in Sanborn, p. 436.

163. Sanborn, pp. 438—440.

164. Letter to John Brown, Jr., 1858, in Sanborn, pp. 450–451.

165. Letter to his family, 1858, in Sanborn, pp. 440–441.

166. Letter to F. B. Sanborn, 1858, in Sanborn, pp. 444–445.

167. Hickok, The Negro in Ohio, p. 42.

168. Ibid., p. 44.

169. Williams, Negro Race in America, Vol. 2, pp. 65–67.

170. Occasional Papers of the American Negro Academy, No. 9, p. 10.

171. Occasional Papers of the American Negro Academy, No. 9, p. 15.

172. Ibid., No. 9, p. 16.

173. Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892), p. 345.

174. Occasional Papers of the American Negro Academy, No. 9, pp. 16–19.

175. Occasional Papers of the American Negro Academy, No. 9, pp. 20–21.

176. Manuscript Diary of John Brown, Boston Public Library, Vol. 2, p. 35.

177. Letter to John Brown, Jr., 1858, in Sanborn, p. 452.

178. Bradford, Harriet, the Moses of Her People, pp. 118–119.

179. Letter of Wendell Phillips, printed in Bradford, Harriet, the Moses of Her People, pp. 155–156.

180. Hamilton, John Brown in Canada, p. 10.

181. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, p. 9.

182. Rollins, Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delaney, pp. 85–90.

183. Reminiscences of J. M. Jones, in Hamilton, John Brown in Canada, pp. 14–15.

184. Hinton, p. 178.

185. Reminiscences of J. M. Jones, in Hamilton, John Brown in Canada, pp. 14 and 16.

186. Rollins, Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delaney, pp. 85–90.

187. Reminiscences of George B. Gill, in Hinton, p. 185.

188. Reminiscences of J. M. Jones, in Hamilton, John Brown in Canada, p. 16.

189. Hinton, pp. 619–633.

190. Hinton, pp. 642–643.

191. Provisional Constitution, Art. 42.

192. Letter to his family, 1858, in Sanborn, pp. 455–456.

193. Letter from Sanborn to Higginson, 1858, in Sanborn, p. 458.

194. Letter from Higginson to Theodore Parker, in Sanborn, p. 459.

195. Letter from Forbes to Higginson, 1858, in Sanborn, pp. 460–461.

196. Sanborn, pp. 463–464.

197. Letter to Owen Brown, 1858, in Richman, John Brown Among the Quakers, pp. 40–41.

198. Jefferson, Notes on Virginia.

199. Sanborn, p. 467.

200. Reports of Senate Committees, 36th Congress, 1st Session, No. 278; Testimony of Richard Realf, p. 100.

201. Sanborn, p. 457.

202. Hinton, pp. 130–131.

203. W. P. Garrison in the Andover Review, Dec., 1890, and Jan., 1891.

204. General Orders, Oct. 10, 1859, Hinton, pp. 646–647.

205. Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, p. 387.

206. Hunter, John Brown’s Raid, republished in the Publications of the Southern History Association, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 188.

207. Report: Reports of Senate Committees, 36th Congress, 1st Session, No. 278; Testimony of Ralph Plumb, p. 181.

208. Barry, The Strange Story of Harper’s Ferry, p. 93.

209. Anne Brown in Hinton, pp. 529–530.

210. Hinton, p. 453.

211. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, p. 15.

212. Hinton, pp. 496–497.

213. Sanborn in the Atlantic Monthly, Hinton, p. 570.

214. Anne Brown in Hinton, p. 450.

215. From the newspaper report of the speech at Cleveland, March 22d, Redpath, pp. 239–240.

216. Diary of A. Bronson Alcott, Sanborn, pp. 504–505.

217. Report: Reports of Senate Committees, 36th Congress, 1st Session, No. 278; Testimony of John C. Unseld, pp. 1–2.

218. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, p. 19.

219. Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, pp. 388–391.

220. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, pp. 23–25.

221. Anne Brown in Sanborn, p. 531.

222. Anne Brown in Hinton, p. 265.

223. Report: Reports of Senate Committees, 36th Congress, 1st Session, No. 278; Testimony of John B. Floyd, pp. 250–252.

224. Letter to Kagi, 1859, in Hinton, pp. 257–258.

225. Anne Brown in Hinton, p. 260.

226. Letter of Owen to John Brown, 1850, in Hinton, p. 259.

227. John Brown, Jr., to Kagi, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 547–548.

228. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, p. 26.

229. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, p. 27.

230. Ibid., p. 23.

231. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, p. 29.

232. Anderson. A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, pp. 31–32.

233. Report: Reports of Senate Committees, 36th Congress, 1st Session, No. 278; Testimony of Daniel Wheeler, pp. 21–22.

234. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, p. 33.

235. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, pp. 33–34.

236. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, pp. 36–37.

237. Statement by John Edwin Cook in Hinton, pp. 700–718.

238. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, p. 37.

239. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, pp. 37–38.

240. Redpath, p. 249.

241. Report: Reports of Senate Committees, 36th Congress, 1st Session, No. 278; Testimony of John D. Starry, p. 25.

242. Boteler, “Recollections of the John Brown Raid” in the Century Magazine, July, 1883, p. 405.

243. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, p. 42.

244. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, pp. 39–40.

245. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, p. 40.

246. Boteler, “Recollections of the John Brown Raid” in the Century Magazine, July, 1883, p. 407.

247. Daingerfield in the Century Magazine, June, 1885.

248. Barry, Strange Story of Harper’s Ferry, p. 67.

249. Patrick Higgins in Hinton, p. 290.

250. Daingerfield in the Century Magazine, June, 1885.

251. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, p. 42.

252. Testimony of Henry Hunter in Redpath, pp. 320–321.

253. Daingerfield in the Century Magazine, June, 1885.

254. Berry, Strange Story of Harper’s Ferry, pp. 70–71.

255. Daingerfield in the Century Magazine, June, 1885.

256. Anderson, A Voice from Harper’s Ferry, p. 52.

257. John Brown in Sanborn, pp. 560–661.

258. Report: Reports of Senate Committees, 36th Congress, 1st Session, No. 278; Testimony of George L. Stearns, pp. 241–242.

259. Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892), p. 376.

260. Correspondence of the New York Herald, Sanborn, pp. 562–571.

261. Frederick Douglass in a speech at Storer College at Harper’s Ferry, May, 1882.

262. Hinton, pp. 325–326.

263. Mrs. Spring in Redpath, p. 377.

264. Newspaper report in Redpath, p. 376.

265. Mrs. Spring in Redpath, p. 377.

266. Letter to his sister, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 607–609.

267. Remarks by John Brown in Redpath, p. 309.

268. Newspaper report quoted by Redpath, p. 337.

269. Redpath, pp. 340–342.

270. Letter to Mrs. George L. Stearns, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 610–611.

271. Letter to his cousin, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 594–595.

272. Letter to D. R. Tilden in Sanborn, pp. 609–610.

273. Letters to his family, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 579–580, 613–615.

274. Letter to D. R. Tilden in Sanborn, pp. 609–610.

275. Letter to his family, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 579–580.

276. Letter to a friend, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 582–583.

277. Letter to his family, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 579–580.

278. Letter to H. L. Vaill, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 589–591.

279. Letter to Rev. Dr. Humphrey, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 603–605.

280. Letter to H. L. Vaill, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 590–591.

281. Letter to Miss Stearns, Sanborn, p. 607.

282. Postscript of letter to his family, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 585–587.

283. Letter to Rev. Dr. Humphrey, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 603–605.

284. Letter to Mr. McFarland, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 598–599.

285. Letter to his younger children, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 596–597.

286. Letter to his wife and children in Sanborn, pp. 585–587.

287. Letter to D. R. Tilden in Sanborn, pp. 609–610.

288. Letter to Mr. McFarland, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 598–599.

289. Redpath, pp. 382–383. c

290. Last letter to his family, 1859, in Sanborn, pp. 614–615.

291. Letter to F. B. Musgrave, 1859, in Sanborn, p. 593.

292. Report: Reports of Senate Committees, 36th Congress, 1st Session, No. 278; Testimony of Joshua R. Giddings, pp. 147–156.

293. Report: Reports of Senate Committees, 36th Congress, 1st Session, No. 278; Testimony of Joshua R. Giddings pp. 147–156.

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  2. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  3. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
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