AMERICA'S GOOD TERRORIST: John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid

John Brown vowed to terrorize slave owners by arming and freeing slaves, in raids from the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia into the Lower South. Tracing the dramatic, often tragic saga of Brown's failed attack on Harpers Ferry and its aftermath, including "the trial of the century" and how he attained martyrdom at the end of a rope. Well illus.