Mine Eyes Have Seen

by Ann Rinaldi

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Mine Eyes Have Seen

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Annie Brown

Martha Brown

John Brown, abolitionist

Owen Brown

Mrs. Huffmaster

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North Elba, New York, USA

Kennedy Farm, Maryland, USA

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA

Concord, Massachusetts, USA

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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)

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For Ronald Philip Rinaldi III, my fourth grandson, may you take your father's love of history and the family name well into the next century

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My pa considered himself Moses.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0590543199, Mass Market Paperback)

From a popular historical novelist comes the riveting story of the Harper's Ferry raid as seen through the eyes of John Brown's daughter Annie, who served as lookout.

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In the summer of 1859, fifteen-year-old Annie travels to the Maryland farm where her father, John Brown, is secretly assembling his provisional army prior to their raid on the United States arsenal at nearby Harpers Ferry.