John Brown Titles: the good John Brown Harpers Ferry Raid books
David S. Reynolds     
New and recommended
Louis A. DeCaro, Jr.

Review by Jean Libby
descendants of the Women Abolitionists of
Santa Clara County, now known as Silicon
Valley.
JOHN BROWN'S FAMILY IN CALIFORNIA


by Jean Libby, April Halberstadt, Eric Ledell Smith,
John M. Lawlor, Louis A. DeCaro, Jr.        
 
                                      
Research on the events of John
Brown's revolutionary
movement, and evidence of
African leadership and
connectivity.

Jean Libby, editor and compiler
with eight  authors "Allies for
Freedom."  
a nonprofit publication
cover art by Jimica Akinloye   
       Kenyatta
                        

       
 $11.95
John Brown Mysteries

new novel by
a Harpers
Ferry native
who
examines
family
relations with
a John Brown
mystery tale.

Just released!

April 2009















"Rebirth" by
Malaquias
Montoya in
Oakland,
California.
Mural is no
longer extant
except in the
DVD


Who told John Brown that Harpers
Ferry was "the perfect steel trap" in
1859?
Frederick Douglass




Louis A. DeCaro knows the   
people, feels the pain of  
enslavement, and honors the  
militant action of John Brown  
and his band of young followers.
New York University Press, 2002.              
Two young Harvard
professors, Timothy Patrick
McCarthy and John Stauffer,
set out to "reconsider the
history of American
abolitionism" by asking
up-and-coming scholars to
write and to help each other.  

The result is noted by Eric
Foner to "change our
understanding not only of
American abolitionism,
but of American Society
itself."  The New Press             
         
Prophets of Protest

John Brown's Body
by Franny Nudelman, an associate
professor of English at the University
of Virginia,  narrates heated conflicts
over the political significance of the
dead.  She argues that responses to
wartime death cannot be fully
understood without attention to the
brutality directed against African
Americans during the antebellum era.   
                                                                      
University of North Carolina Press, 2004
Inspired by a conversation
William Loren Katz had with
Langston Hughes, T
he Black
West
presents long-neglected
stories of daring pioneers and
a host of other intrepid men
and women who marched into
the wilderness alongside
Chief Osceola, Billy the Kid
and Geronimo.  
"Great God Almighty!  It's Old John Brown!"
Sword of the Spirit, an audio CD by Magpie (Greg Artzner
and Terry Leonino) that commemorates and celebrates
the raid on Harpers Ferry, October 16, 1859. CD includes
"Mary Brown, Abolitionist" by Peggy Eyres.
Terrible Swift   Sword;
the   Legacy
of John   
Brown
a collection of essays from the
first Conference on John Brown
at Penn State Montalto in 1996.

edited by Peggy Russo and
Paul Finkelman.

Mean to Be Free; John
Brown's Black Nation
Campaign

Honors    
thesis in
African  American Studies

at the University of  
California,  
Berkeley by
Jean Libby,
Shown on
university cable TV  
DVD 2004
Come to Harpers Ferry in   
2009 --
Events to commemorate the
150th
anniversary of the
John Brown Raid
  


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Essential reference work
by Tom Calarco, for ABC

People of the
Underground Railroad: a
biographical dictionary.  

John Brown chapter is
helpful for anyone who is
researching and writing.

Recommend it to your
school or public library!