A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown's War Against Slavery

by Albert Marrin

Hardcover, 2014

Library's review

The biography uses primary source documents to chronicle Brown’s life and family, the abolitionists, killings at Pottawatomie, Kansas, the uprising at Harpers Ferry, and Brown’s trial and hanging. The Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, slavery and free blacks are part of the
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Tags

NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, History-Life & Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)

Genres

Collection

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

Publication

Knopf Books for Young Readers (2014), Edition: Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed, 256 pages

Description

Examines the life of abolitionist John Brown and the raid he led on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859, exploring his religious fanaticism and belief in "righteous violence,"--and committment to domestic terrorism.

Awards

Language

English

Original language

English

Original publication date

2014

ISBN

0307981525 / 9780307981523

UPC

884236811940

DDC/MDS

973.7

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