Synopsis
Presenting portraits of the six men who assisted and funded John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, a detailed study examines their role during the onset of the Civil War. National ad/promo.
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About the Author
Edward J. Renehan, Jr., is the author of John Burroughs: An American Naturalist and is a contributor to The American Scholar and other publications. He lives in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
From the Inside Flap
ns know that John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia -- a raid he believed would ignite a bloody slave revolution -- was one of the events that sparked the Civil War. But very few know the story of how Brown was covertly aided by a circle of prosperous and privileged Northeasterners who supplied him with money and weapons, and, before the raid, even hid him in their homes while authorities sought Brown on a murder charge. These men called themselves the Secret Six.
The Secret Six included Thomas Wentworth Higginson, minister, author, and editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Samuel Howe, world-famous physician; Theodore Parker, the Unitarian minister whose rhetoric helped shape Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; Franklin Sanborn, an educator and close friend of Emerson and Thoreau; and the immensely wealthy Gerrit Smith and George Luther Stearns.
The existence of the Six has been known to scholars, but there has never been a book devoted to them. Now, drawing on archives from Bosto
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