Reviews

A Voice from Harper's Ferry: A Narrative of Events at Harper's Ferry; With Incidents Prior and Subsequent to Its Capture by Captain Brown and His Men by Osborne P. Anderson

stacie_w_books's review

challenging dark fast-paced

3.75

kevinmccarrick's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

poenaestante's review against another edition

3.0

The book is quite convoluted and hard to follow, but the prefaces are EXTREMELY GOOD and concise in giving a rundown of conditions leading up to a following the civil war (spoiler alert: they appease murderous racists in the name of "unity") The account itself, though inscrutable in many places, is helpful in terms of tangibly thinking about the practicalities and limitations of abolitionists and mere abolitionism both then and now.