Midnight Rising

Bestselling author Tony Horwitz delivers a gripping account of John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry. Driven by radical anti-slavery conviction, Brown, his sons, and a diverse guerrilla band launched a desperate, secretly plotted strike against the slaveholding South. *Midnight Rising* vividly portrays the daring insurrection and its dramatic aftermath, from Brown's capture and defiant eloquence to its role in galvanizing the North and appalling the South. Horwitz reveals how this pivotal event stunned the nation, polarized a divided America, and ignited the path to the Civil War and, ultimately, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

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