FROM SLAVE TO COLLEGE PRESIDENT
The "Lives Worth Living"
Series of Popular Biographies.
Illustrated. Crown 8vo, Cloth Extra, Gilt Edges,3s. 6d. per Volume.
1. LEADERS OF MEN. By H. A. Page, Authorof "Golden Lives." Sixth Edition.
2. WISE WORDS AND LOVING DEEDS. ByE. Conder Gray. Eighth Edition.
3. MASTER MISSIONARIES. By A. H. Japp,LL.D., F.R.S.E. Sixth Edition.
4. LABOUR AND VICTORY. By A. H. Japp,LL.D. Third Edition.
5. HEROIC ADVENTURE. Illustrated. ThirdEdition.
6. GREAT MINDS IN ART. By WilliamTirebuck. Second Edition.
7. GOOD MEN AND TRUE. By A. H. Japp,LL.D. Second Edition.
8. FAMOUS MUSICAL COMPOSERS. ByLydia Morris. Second Edition.
9. OLIVER CROMWELL AND HIS TIMES.By G. Holden Pike. With 8 Illustrations, includingthe Bristol Portrait as Frontispiece.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.FROM SLAVE TOCOLLEGE PRESIDENT
BEING THE
LIFE STORY OFBOOKER T. WASHINGTON
BY
G. HOLDEN PIKE
Author of"Oliver Cromwell and His Times,"Etc., Etc.
With Frontispiece Portrait
London
T. Fisher Unwin
Paternoster Square
1902
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CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN OF HARPER'S FERRY
BY
JOHN NEWTON
Crown 8vo, Cloth, 6s. Fully Illustrated.
There are few to whom the lines,
But his soul's marching on,"
are not familiar, but few are now aware that they came into being asthe marching song, made and used by the followers of "John Brown ofHarper's Ferry," or of "Ossawatomie," after he had been executed.His was a stirring life. Having conceived the idea of becoming theliberator of the negro slaves in the Southern States of North America,he emigrated in 1855 from Ohio to Kansas, where he took an active partin the contest against the pro-slavery party. He gained, in August1856, a victory at Ossawatomie over a superior number of Missourianswho had invaded Kansas (whence the surname "Ossawatomie"). Onthe night of October 16, 1859, he seized the arsenal at Harper's Ferry,Virginia, at the head of a small band of followers with a view to armingthe negroes and inciting an insurrection. He was captured October18th, was tried by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and was executed atCharlestown, December 2, 185