John Brown: The Cost Of Freedom
Part Book Review, Part History Lesson
John Brown: The Cost Of Freedom, by Louis A. DeCaro Jr., is a short biography on the famous and controversial figure of John Brown: the man who launched a militant strike against slavery and injustice in the United States, who prepared a new society where all races could live equally, and who stood up with a persecuted people against a nation.
The Cost of Freedom starts off by explaining that the life of the well-known figure is almost nothing like the ones that our textbooks and society normally represent. So, let’s first start with what we traditionally hear about the man: (more…)
