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On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, leaving fifteen people dead. Viewed in the North as a saint of freedom and in the South as the devil incarnate, Brown was a visionary who not only foretold but, made inevitable the bloody apocalypse of the Civil War. An intricate mosaic of alternating narrative voices, Raising Holy Hell is an explosive, multi-textured evocation of the prophetic madness of the man who saw an America damned by the sin of slavery.
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" A powerful, thought-provoking work."
School Library Journal
"First-novelist Olds offers a fascinating study of slavery in the U.S. and of one of its most ardent opponents, the enigmatic John Brown, whose violent abolitionist crusades foreshadowed-and, arguably, precipitated-the Civil War."
Publishers Weekly