Cloudsplitter
A Novel
by Russell Banks · first published 1998
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From book jacket: Narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, Cloudsplitter vividly re-creates the antislavery movement of the 1840s and traces it through the brutal guerrilla warfare of Bloody Kansas, culminating in the a haunting, powerful re-creation of Brown's insurrectionary raid on Harpers Ferry.
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on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024” ↗Several great books about John Brown, including Russell Banks’s “Cloudsplitter” and a bio from W.E.B. Du Bois. Du Bois wanted to bio Frederick Douglass, with whom Brown frequently argued over anti-slavery tactics. Booker T. Washington got the Douglass book in the end. Social justice…
on “John Brown (Abolitionist)” ↗