 | Ambivalent Conspirators: John Brown, the Secret Six, and a Theory of Slave Violence Subjects: Brown John 1800-1859; Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- John Brown’s Raid 1859; Abolitionists -- United States -- Attitudes; Slavery -- United States -- Insurrections etc; The remarkable relationship among the six conspirators who aided John Brown in his famed 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry is dramatically exposed in this volume. Why did these six abolitionists, who were nominally pacifist, decide to subsidize an act of black violence? Jeffery Rossbach is associate editor of The Black Abolitionist Papers at Florida State University. |
