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John Brown pt4

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American Carnage
2024
American Carnage
Jeff Stein, Rowley Amato
John Brown; The Cost of Freedom
2007
John Brown; The Cost of Freedom
Selections from his Life and Letters
Louis A. DeCaro, Jr.
Midnight Rising
2012
Midnight Rising
John Brown and The Raid That Sparked the Civil War
Tony Horowitz
The Good Lord Bird (book)
2014
The Good Lord Bird (book)
James McBride
The Zealot and the Emancipator
2020
The Zealot and the Emancipator
John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
H. W. Brands

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Batiste, Jon. "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Battle Hymn of the Republic. Jon Batiste, 2017. Spotify, https://open.spotify.com/track/3lX71wNWCj1P8s0Qa4dVVZ?si=3c4187b752ce4b4d.

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Brands, H.W. The Zealot and the Emancipator; John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom. New York, NY, Doubleday; First Edition, 6 Oct 2020.

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13th. Directed by Ava DuVernay, Kandoo Films, 2016.

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