John Brown

One of the preeminent Black scholars of his era traces the life and bold aspirations of a man who devoted his life to opposing slavery at any cost.W.E.B. Du Bois examines John Brown as a man as well as a motive force behind the abolitionist sympathies that helped lead to the Civil War. He traces Browns sympathy for slaves to an incident in his youth when he was warmly received by a family that treated their slave with casual brutality.