| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-302) and index. |
| Contents |
The secret unspoken -- A dream of mountains -- The chevalier -- One bright, clear flash -- Fugitives -- Riot -- Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God -- Sharp's Rights of the people -- Gideon -- To shame into nobleness unmanly youth -- Enter Hugh Forbes -- Troubling Israel -- An evil hour -- The reputed New England humanitarians -- Manifesto -- The stuff of which martyrs are made -- Harpers Ferry -- The steel trap -- Fantasies of escape -- The not so secret six -- The dirge of the cataract -- The committee -- Machines -- The true believer -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
Most Americans 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. The 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.--Book jacket. |
| Subject |
Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Friends and associates.
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Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859.
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| Added Title |
Secret 6 |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Renehan, Edward, 1956- Secret six. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c1995 (OCoLC)607750416 |
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Online version: Renehan, Edward, 1956- Secret six. 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c1995 (OCoLC)622957562 |
| ISBN |
051759028X |
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9780517590287 |
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