The Men Who Started the War

21/11/2023 34 min
The Men Who Started the War

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Episode Synopsis

John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified? By Drew Gilpin Faust. From The Atlantic's December 2023 issue.
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