- Fiction, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists, History
Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Cloudsplitter vividly re-creates the antislavery movement of the 1840s and traces it through the brutal guerrilla warfare of Bloody Kansas, culminating in a powerful re-creation of Brown's insurrectionary raid on Harpers Ferry.
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- Author
- Russell Banks
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 758
- Publisher
- HarperFlamingo
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060168605
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