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                               Sources

Primary Sources

Henry David Thoreau (1859): A Plea for Captain John Brown: This was use for his failure and success to explain how he was able to spark the abolish slavery but just not him but to start it.

Franklin Sanborn (ed.) (1891): The Life and Letters of John Brown : this was a great Book since it was primary it was a useful source and was used mostly in his biography section.


Newspaper

The Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pa, August 24, 1859, Page 5: This source was used because there was a conversation that John Brown had with Fredrick Douglass.
The Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pa, October 26, 1859, Page 1, 4, 5 : this sources was used because the article had a piece about the harpers ferry.
The Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pa, November 2, 1859, Page 1, 2a, 3a This sources also had some stuff to do with the Harpers ferry.
The Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pa, November 9, 1859, Page 1, 2, 4, 5 : this Newspaper article was about the Harpers Ferry insurrection that was used in the raid section.
The Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pa, November 16, 1859, Page 1, 4, 5 : This was also used in the Harpers Ferry because most of the articles took place near the harpers ferry.
The Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pa, November 23, 1859, Page 4, 5: This was explained the acts of how he was treated in the counsel.
The Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pa, November 30, 1859, Page 4, 8: This was about the Kansas trip that John Brown took that was used in the raid section.
The Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pa, December 7, 1859, Page 4, 8: This source was used in the cause and effect because it was an article about how he was executed.
The Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pa, December 14, 1859, Page 4, 5, 8: This was about the Pottawatomie  massacre.
The Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pa, December 21, 1859, Page 4, 5, 8: This source was the reports on the execution in Charleston.

The Staunton Spectator, Staunton, Va, October 18, 1859, Page 2 : We used parts of this sources for the Harpers ferry.
The Staunton Spectator, Staunton, Va, November 1, 1859, Page 1, 2 : We used parts of this sources to see the voices that were heard around that time.
The Staunton Spectator, Staunton, Va, November 8, 1859, Page 2, 3: We used parts of this sources to put in our section about the raids
The Staunton Spectator, Staunton, Va, November 15, 1859, Page 3: this source was used for parts of the Harpers Ferry
The Staunton Spectator, Staunton, Va, November 22, 1859, Page 2: we used it from the parts where it explained the effects of the raids
The Staunton Spectator, Staunton, Va, November 29, 1859, Page 1, 2: we used it because it explained what children and women did to help after the raid.
The Staunton Spectator, Staunton, Va, December 6, 1859, Page 2: we you used it because Explained the Actions of John Brown and what happen in the John Brown.
The Staunton Spectator, Staunton, Va, December 13, 1859, Page 1, 2, 3: we used it because of how described what happened in the Harpers Ferry and how he was brutally stabbed when he was surrounded in the Armory.
The Staunton Spectator, Staunton, Va, December 20, 1859, Page 1, 2: This article gave more of the feeling around that time and helped the describe more on that time.


Songs

"John Brown's Body" This song was used as a background music for the website

Secondary sources
Secondary books
"The Legend of John Brown: A Biography and a History," by Richard O. Boyer : this was used for the biography to give a background about his whole life.

"His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid," edited by Paul Finkelman : It was used to explain more about the Harpers Ferry and helped one section of it.

"The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired With John Brown," by Edward J. Renehan : was used in parts of the secret 6

"John Brown, 1800-1859, A Biography Fifty Years After," by Oswald Garrison Villard : this source was used in some sections on the biography.

"Harpers Ferry" by Barrie Stavis: This source was used in our Raid section so that it would give us more information on what happen in the Armory of the Harpers Ferry.

"John Brown's Body" by Stephen Vincent Benet : This source was used in our Cause and Effect Section because it explained the things about the massacre.

Barrett, Tracy. Harper's Ferry: The story of John Brown's Raid. Millbrook, 1993. Younger Readers. : this source was used to type in more about the Harper's Ferry to explain what happen.

DeCaro, Louis A. Jr. "Fire from the Midst of You": A Religious Life of John Brown (2002) :this source was used for the Harpers Ferry.

W.E.B. Du Bois John Brown (ISBN 0679783539) (1909). This source was used to put in our biography of John Brown part.

Goodrich, Thomas War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861 (1998). This source was used in our section about the Kansas Massacre.

Morrison, Michael. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War (1997). This source was also used to explain how he sparked the civil war

Oates, Stephen B. To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown (1970). This source was used to help us type out the biography

Oates, Stephen B. Our Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, and the Civil War Era (1979) This source was used to show how the John Brown started some parts of the Civil war.

Peterson, Merrill D. (2002): John Brown: The Legend Revisited (ISBN 0813921325) This source was used for the parts where we talked about the Kansas massacre

Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (1976), prize winning scholarly history. : this source had to deal with the harpers ferry and we used it for the raid section.

Reynolds, David S. (2005): John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights (2005) This Book helped us because we used to explain how he sparked the Civil war.

SenGupta, Gunja. "Bleeding Kansas: A Review Essay." Kansas History 24 (Winter 2001/2002): 318-341. This source was used in our website for the parts about the Kansas massacre.

Encyclopedia

World Book 2001, Louis Filler, pg 643 : This was used to start us out and give us a general understanding about who John Brown was.
 

Websites

http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/jbrown/master.html This Source was good because it gave us Eye witness accounts on John Brown.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/ This source was good because it had maps and timelines that we could use in the Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist) This Source was very useful since it gave the whole story about John Brown and we used it because it had things about the Kansas Massacre.

Pictures:

http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/~imlskto/graphics/brown_john.jpg

http://www.freelancestar.com/CivilWar/Education/Definitions/

http://heartlandcafe.com/images/john_brown.jpg

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/images/brown_j.jpg

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/images/brown.jpg

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/peopleevents/images/john_brown.jpg

http://www.schoolhousevideo.org/Media/JohnBrown.jpg

http://www.rwe.org/bic/John_Brown.jpg

http://www.randomjottings.net/images3/john_brown2.jpg

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/themes/reform/images/brown_illustration.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/HWFireHouseBrown.jpg