To Purge This Land with Blood

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To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown
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Second edition
Author Stephen B. Oates
SubjectBiography
Publisher Harper & Row
Publication date
1970
Pages434
ISBN 978-0-06-131655-5

To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown is a 1970 biography of abolitionist John Brown by American historian Stephen B. Oates. The biography triggered a reappraisal of Brown, who was subsequently less likely to be dismissed by historians as irrational. [1]

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  1. Hancock 2015
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