On the Trail of John Brown’s Body
Book Two: On The Trail of John Brown’s Body
In Book One of the Young Heroes of History Series, David and George Adams were caught up in an adventure that brought them face to face with a fugitive slave. In Book Two of the Series, we find them getting deeper into the slavery crisis. The only person who can help David is his father John who lives in the dangerous, violent territory nicknamed “Bleeding Kansas”. David runs away to join his father, unaware that George is following him. Unfortunately, neither boy knows that for years, David’s parents have been involved with the infamous John Brown and his violent plans to end slavery On the Trail of John Brown’s Body is an adventure/mystery story...
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“The second in Alan N. Kay’s Young Heroes of History series, On the Trail of John Brown’s Body, is every bit as good as the first. Whereas that book juxtaposed the plight of a slave family and a northern family filled with abolitionists and sympathetics, this book follows the adventures of two boys and their fathers as they journey to the Kansas Territory in the days when John Brown cast the longest shadow in the land. David and George, two of the young heroes from the first book, are the main characters here as well, along with their fathers. They have typical frontier adventures, but always in the background (and often in the foreground) is the...
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John Adams (George’s abolitionist uncle and David’s father) is on his way to join the mysterious John Brown and after a long chase, George and his father Sean have finally caught up to him. Sean is trying to convince his brother John that what he is doing is wrong. ——————— “But hundreds, maybe thousands will be killed,” Sean pleaded. “An eye for an eye Sean,” John answered coldly. “As it says in the Bible. These slaveholders have been destroying the lives of thousands of blacks since the first days of our country. They sit back and make money while people who get nothing for all their...
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