Abolitionist John Brown believed God had predestined him to wipe out slavery. He changed the course of American history but utilized violence and guerilla tactics to drive his cause. A controversial figure, was he an insane criminal or a Christ-like martyr? Larry Mantle talks with cultural biographer, David S. Reynolds about his new book, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights about his revealing portrait of the abolitionist.
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