TY  - BOOK
AU  - Banks Russell
TI  - Cloudsplitter: a novel 
SN  - 0060930861 
AV  - PS3552.A49 
PY  - 1999///, c1998
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - HarperPerennial/HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Brown John
KW  - Antislavery movements
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Abolitionists
KW  - Harpers Ferry W Va
KW  - History
KW  - John Brown's Raid 1859
N1  - "Editors' choice, New York Times, book review"--Cover
N2  - A novel on John Brown, the slavery abolitionist, narrated by one of his 20 children. The narrator is his son Owen, who fought at his father's side and he tells the story in a series of letters to a biographer. Owen describes his father as a loving family man and provides insight into Brown's motives for becoming an abolitionist, including business failures
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