The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Battle for American Freedom

Gifted storyteller and bestselling historian H. W. Manufacturers narrates the epic wrestle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two males moved to radically completely different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin.

 

John Brown was a charismatic and deeply non secular man who heard the God of the Outdated Testomony chatting with him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage struggle. His males tore pro-slavery settlers from their houses and hacked them to demise with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his males assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race struggle that may cleanse the nation of slavery.

Brown’s violence pointed bold Illinois lawyer and former officeholder Abraham Lincoln towards a special resolution to slavery: politics. Lincoln spoke cautiously and dreamed large, plotting his path again to Washington and maybe to the White Home. But his warning couldn’t defend him from the vortex of violence Brown had set in movement. After Brown’s arrest, his righteous dignity on the best way to the gallows led many within the North to see him as a martyr to liberty. Southerners responded with anger and horror to a terrorist being made right into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle between the opposing voices of the fractured nation and gained election as president. However the time for moderation had handed, and Lincoln’s fervent perception that democracy may resolve its ethical crises peacefully confronted its final check.



The Zealot and the Emancipator is acclaimed historian H. W. Manufacturers’s thrilling and page-turning account of how two American giants formed the struggle for freedom.