John Brown (Mint Editions) by W. E. B. Du Bois mermaid hand colored with watercolor

hand colored with watercolor

Wise Blood

"I was so excited to read this book

None of the lines we know today were inevitable

At fourteen

John Brown (Mint Editions) by W. E. B. Du Bois mermaid hand colored with watercolorOne 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 Brown's sympathy for slaves to an incident in his youth when he was warmly received by a family that treated their slave with casual brutality. At the time