My take on abolitionist John Brown, from the History Channel Club magazine and on-line.
More than 150 years ago, an already notorious abolitionist named John Brown convened a revolutionary group of blacks and whites inside a church in Chatham, Ontario. The ostensible purpose of the meeting was to form a Masonic lodge. But the real reason was to create a provisional government and adopt a constitution for a free black state that Brown hoped to create in the slave-holding Southern Appalachians...
This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, w
This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, w
