Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War Hardcover – Bargain Price
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elections of 1860 and
Harpers Ferry executions and
population and industry in
Southern fear of
Northern Union meetings
North Star
O’Bannon, Hiram
Oberlin College
“October the Sixteenth” (Hughes)
Ohio
Brown’s early years in
Brown’s return to
Kansas and
Osawatomie, Battle of
Paine, Thomas
Panic of 1837
Parker, Judge Richard
Parker, Theodore
Parsons, Luke
Petersburg, Battle of
Phelps, Andrew
Phillips, Wendell
Phillips, William
Pierce, Franklin
“Plea for Captain John Brown, A” (Thoreau)
Polk, James
“Portent, The” (Melville)
Potomac River
Pottawatomie Massacre
Pottawatomie Rifles
presidency
Chatham Convention and
South’s control of
presidential elections
of 1848
of 1860
Provisional Army
Provisional Constitution (Brown’s)
Provisional Constitution (Confederate)
Puritans
Quakers
Quinn, Luke
Reconstruction
Redpath, James
Republican Party
Revolutionary War
Richmond Enquirer
Richmond Grays
Ritner, Mary
Ruffin, Edmund
Russia
Samson
Sanborn, Franklin
Annie’s letters to
background of
Brown’s capture and trial and
Brown’s death and
early support for Brown
Harpers Ferry plans and
Secret Six and
Scott, Dred
secessionism
Secret Six
Brown’s capture and
Forbes’s blackmail of
formed
Harpers Ferry plans and
Missouri rescue and
Seely, S. F.
Seward, William
Shadd, Isaac
Shepherd, Heyward
Sherman, Henry
Sherman, William
Sickles, Daniel
Sinn, John
slave codes
slave rebellions
slavery. See also abolitionists; blacks; fugitive slaves; and specific laws and territories
attitudes toward
Brown reveals plan on, to Douglass
Brown’s desire to end
Brown’s hanging and
Brown’s statement on, after capture
Brown’s statement on, at sentencing
Constitution and
Douglass’s speech on Brown and
Emancipation Proclamation ends
expansion of
Kansas and
Lee and
Lincoln and
moral suasion vs.
as “peculiar institution,”
population of
Southern defense of
slaves
Brown frees, at Harpers Ferry
Brown frees, in Missouri
slave trade
Smith, Gerrit
Brown’s trial and
early support for Brown by
Kennedy farm documents and
Secret Six and
Smith, W. P.
South/southerners
“Africa” as Brown’s code for
Brown’s plan to invade
elections of 1860 and secession of
expansion of slavery and
Harpers Ferry raid increases fears of
industry in
Kansas and
northern goods boycotted by
political power of
secession and
slave revolts and
South Carolina
black regiments in
secession and
Spring, Rebecca
Springdale, Iowa, base
Springfield, Massachusetts
Starry, John
Stearns, George Luther
Stearns, Henry
Stearns, Mary
Stevens, Aaron (“Colonel Whipple”)
Brown’s hanging and
buried at North Elba
Harpers Ferry raid and
Kennedy farm and
recruited
romance with Dunbar and
trial and hanging of
wounded
Stevens, Lydia
Stone, Lucy
Storer College
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Strong, George Templeton
Strother, David
Stuart, James Ewell Brown “Jeb”
Subterranean Pass Way
Sumner, Charles
Tabor, Iowa, base
Taliaferro, William
Taney, Roger
Tayleure, C. W.
Taylor, Steward
Thompson, Dauphin
Harpers Ferry raid and death of
Kennedy farm and
Thompson, Henry (son-in-law)
Thompson, Johnny (grandson)
Thompson, Ruth Brown (daughter, Henry’s wife)
Thompson, Seth
Thompson, William
death of
Harpers ferry raid and
Kennedy farm and
remains of
Thoreau, Henry David
Throckmorton, William
Tidd, Charles
Civil War and
escape of
Harpers Ferry raid and
Kennedy farm and
Timbucto colony
Torrington, Connecticut, birthplace
Townsley, James
Transcendentalists
Tubman, Harriet
Turner, George
Turner, Nat
Two Years Before the Mast (Dana)
Tyler, John
Tyndale, Hector
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
Underground Railroad
Union Army
U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry
Brown captures
Brown holds engine house
engine house stormed by marines
survival of
U.S. Congress
Harper Ferry raid debated in
South dominates
U.S. Constitution
Brown redrafts(see also Provisional Constitution)
slavery and
South Carolina repeals ratification of
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
three-fifths clause
U.S. federal troops
U.S. Ordnance Department
U.S. Senate
Brown’s funeral and
Sumner beaten in
U.S. Supreme Court
Unseld, John
Utah territory
Utopians
Vaill, Rev. H. L.
Virginia
borders closed for Brown’s hanging
secession of
slavery in
West Virginia separated from
Virginia Assembly
Virginia Military Institute
Virginia Supreme Court
“Voice from Harper’s Ferry, A” (Anderson)
Voorhees, Daniel
Walker, William
War Department
War of 1812
Washington, Augustus
Washington, George
sword of
Washington, Lewis
Washington, Martha
Washington, D.C.
Washington Evening Star
Weiner, Theodore
Western Reserve
West Virginia
Westward expansion
W
helan, Daniel
Whipple, Colonel. See Stevens, Aaron
White, Edward
Whitman, Walt
Wilkinson, Allen
Wilkinson, Louisa Jane
Williams, Bill
Winchester militia
Wise, Henry
background of
Brown’s hanging and
Civil War and
Copeland’s remains and
Douglass’s speech and
Harpers Ferry raid and
Mary’s appeal to, on remains
northern conspiracy suspected by
raiders trials and hangings and
on slaves’ loyalty
Virginia Assembly and
women’s suffrage movement
“Words of Advice” (Brown)
World’s Fair (Chicago)
About the Author
Tony Horwitz is the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic, A Voyage Long and Strange, Blue Latitudes, and Baghdad Without a Map and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who has worked for The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. He has also been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a visiting scholar at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.
He lives on Martha’s Vineyard with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their two sons.
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Midnight rising: John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War / Tony Horwitz.—1st ed. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)—History—John Brown’s Raid, 1859. 2. Brown, John, 1800–1859. 3. Abolitionists—United States—Biography. I. Title.
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