John Brown: The Spark That Lit the Fire

John Brown: The Spark That Lit the Fire — The Complete Audiobook

On the morning of December 2, 1859, an old man rode to the gallows sitting on his own coffin and handed his jailer a prophecy: the crimes of this guilty land would never be purged away but with blood. Sixteen months later, the Civil War began. John Brown had failed at nearly everything in fifty-nine years — tanneries, cattle, wool, farming — bankrupt, sued, and ridiculed along the way. The one thing he did not fail at was igniting the war that ended slavery.

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