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Plotted in secret‚ launched in the dark‚ John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now‚ Midnight Rising portrays Brown’s uprising in vivid color‚ revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. John Brown‚ the descendant of New England Puritans‚ saw slavery as a sin against America’s founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists‚ he was willing to take up arms‚ and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland‚ joined by his teenage daughter‚ three of his sons‚ and a guerrilla band that included former slaves and a dashing spy. On October 17‚ the raiders seized Harpers Ferry‚ stunning the nation and prompting a counterattack led by Robert E. Lee. After Brown’s capture‚ his defiant eloquence galvanized the North and appalled the South‚ which considered Brown a terrorist. The raid also helped elect Abraham Lincoln‚ who later began to fulfill Brown’s dream with the Emancipation Proclamation‚ a measure he called “a John Brown raid‚ on a gigantic scale.”

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