Volume 45, Number 6 · April 9, 1998
God's Own Terrorist
By Alfred Kazin
Cloudsplitter
by Russell Banks
HarperFlamingo, 758 pp., $27.50
On a rainy Sunday night, October 16, 1859, seventeen men led by the violently religious abolitionist John Brown, who thought slavery a greater sin than murder and regarded himself as 'an instrument in God's hands' for extirpating it, took over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. There the Potomac and Shenandoah meet.
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