Zealot and the Emancipator
Brands, H.W.![Zealot and the Emancipator](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/334/33405010/CHSBZCOP0333405010.jpg)
From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands, the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln, two men with radically different views on how moral people must act when their democracy countenances evil.John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. In 1854, when Congress opened Kansas territory to s...