Chapter I: Front Matter

AMERICAN CRISIS BIOGRAPHIES

Edited by

Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph. D.

The American Crisis Biographies

Edited by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Ph.D. With the counsel and advice of Professor John B. McMaster, of the University of Pennsylvania.

Each 12mo, cloth, with frontispiece portrait. Price $1.25 net; by mail, $1.37.

These biographies will constitute a complete and comprehensive
history of the great American sectional struggle in the form of
readable and authoritative biography. The editor has enlisted the
co-operation of many competent writers, as will be noted from the
list given below. An interesting feature of the undertaking is that
the series is to be impartial, Southern writers having been assigned
to Southern subjects and Northern writers to Northern subjects, but
all will belong to the younger generation of writers, thus assuring
freedom from any suspicion of war-time prejudice. The Civil War will
not be treated as a rebellion, but as the great event in the history
of our nation, which, after forty years, it is now clearly
recognized to have been.

Now ready:

=Abraham Lincoln.= By ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER.
=Thomas H. Benton.= By JOSEPH M. ROGERS.
=David G. Farragut.= By JOHN R. SPEARS.
=William T. Sherman.= By EDWARD ROBINS.
=Frederick Douglass.= By BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
=Judah P. Benjamin.= By PIERCE BUTLER.
=Robert E. Lee.= By PHILIP ALEXANDER BRUCE.
=Jefferson Davis.= By PROF. W. E. DODD.
=Alexander H. Stephens.= By LOUIS PENDLETON.
=John C. Calhoun.= By GAILLARD HUNT.
=“Stonewall” Jackson.= By HENRY ALEXANDER WHITE.
=John Brown.= By W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS.

In preparation:

=Daniel Webster.= By PROF. C. H. VAN TYNE.
=William Lloyd Garrison.= By LINDSAY SWIFT.
=Charles Sumner.= By Prof. GEORGE H. HAYNES.
=William H. Seward.= By EDWARD EVERETT HALE, Jr.
=Stephen A. Douglas.= By PROF. HENRY PARKER WILLIS.
=Thaddeus Stevens.= By PROF. J. A. WOODBURN.
=Andrew Johnson.= By PROF. WALTER L. FLEMING.
=Henry Clay.= By THOMAS H. CLAY.
=Ulysses S. Grant.= By PROF. FRANKLIN S. EDMONDS.
=Edwin M. Stanton.= By EDWIN S. CORWIN.
=Jay Cooke.= By ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER.

AMERICAN CRISIS BIOGRAPHIES

JOHN BROWN

by

W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS, Ph. D.

_Professor of Sociology, Atlanta University_

Author of “The Suppression of the African Slave Trade,” “The
Philadelphia Negro,” “The Souls of Black Folk,” etc.

PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
_Published September, 1909_

_All rights reserved_
Printed in U. S. A.

_To
the memory of
ELIZABETH_

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