to give the reader was to inform and educate them about slavery and abolitionists. The author tells about john brown and how he stood up for slaves and the equality of all men. Benjamin Quarles points out all the problems about slavery and America during this time. This book informs us on how slaves were treated during that time. But it also tells us about the many men, including john brown, who helped the blacks win their freedom. Main bodyIn the beginning of this book it starts off by telling about john browns day and how it became. On august 17, 1906, hundreds of admires assembled at the john brown fort to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of john browns birth and the fiftieth jubilee of his blood skirmish at Osawatomie, Kansas, over the issue of the slavery in the territories. The one hundred or so participants in this john browns day were members of a one-year-old black civil rights organization known as the Niagara movement, its first meeting was held at Niagara falls that summer.All the people gathered outside the engine house, the pilgrims listened to prayer, followed by a speech from Richard t. greener. People had to stand through this whole speech while it was raining. After the half hour speech, the group marched around the fort single file. They sang the battle hymn of the republic, supplementing it with additional verses from the John Brown song.Anthon hall had given speeches before on john brown. On Decoration Day in 1881, Frederick Douglas had an oration on the hero of Harpers Ferry. On john browns day, Du bois gave a history of slavery and Browns relationship to it. He opened Withan analytical study of slavery in modern times and the cause of its growth in the United States. Du Bois was on ground familiar to him, having written a pioneer study on the suppression of the African slave trade. He said brown lived in a world in which things were eternally right or eternally wrong, with slavery obviously in the latte...
