Better and Worse Worsts
Sadakat Kadri: American Trials, 24 May 2007
The Trial in American Life
by Robert Ferguson.
Chicago, 400 pp., £18.50, March 2007,978 0 226 24325 2 Show More
by Robert Ferguson.
Chicago, 400 pp., £18.50, March 2007,
“... On 16 October 1859, a white anti-slavery agitator called John Brown led 21 followers in a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. A previous expedition against a Kansas slave-owning settlement had ended in five deaths, but Brown had far grander hopes for his new enterprise – to start an insurrection across the South ... ”