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The Hard Crackers project is just over five years old.  During that time, we have published almost a hundred articles in nine issues of our print journal and posted more than 350 articles on our web ...

Response To John Brown and The Good Lord Bird

Tom Bura

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Note from the Editors:  A few weeks ago, we ran an interview with Marty Brown, a descendant of one of John Brown’s children. We had come across Marty via a letter that she wrote to the ...

John Brown—“one of the most clear-sighted and courageous patriots our nation has ever produced”

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An Interview with Marty Brown Marty Brown is a descendant of Jason Brown, one of John Brown’s children.  She lives in Portland, Oregon.  We contacted her after we read a letter that she had written to ...

What Does Religion Have to Do with It?

John Garvey

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My question is prompted by the nomination and likely approval of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court and the reactions to that.  She is, without question, a conservative.  Some ascribe that conservatism to her deeply ...

The Immortal Ten and the Rescue of John Doy

https://jeffersonjayhawkers.com/about/ In July 1859 Kansan James B. Abbott collected a force of 10 men to sweep into Missouri and spring Underground Railroad operator John Doy from jail. An early Lawrence, Kansas Territory, settler and dedicated abolitionist, ...

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CREATIVE PROVOCATION: STRATEGY FOR REVOLUTION

Noel Ignatiev

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How do small groups of revolutionaries convince the majority of ordinary people of the need for revolution and persuade them to take the steps necessary to bring it about? It is the central question for every ...

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Marx and Engels on Civil War: New Collection

Marcelo Badaró Mattos

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Review by Marcelo Badaró Mattos The Civil War in the United States, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Edited by Andrew Zimmerman. New York: International Publishers, 2016. Paper, $14.00. Pp. 256. This book is the second ...
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The two finest things

W.E.B. DuBois

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“Why, do you know the two finest things in the industry of the West, finer than factory, shop or ship? One is the black laborers’s Saturday off. Neither the whip of the driver, nor the starvation ...
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“Hard Crackers, Come Again No More”

Vincent Kelley

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I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with two editors from Hard Crackers, Noel Ignatiev and James Murray. Hard Crackers  is a periodical founded in 2016 that deals with race from a perspective that has deeply informed my own. ...

Hard Crackers Event: Sunday, November 5, 2017, Brooklyn

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Hard Crackers is honored to be hosting Marcus Rediker for a reading from his new book, The Fearless Benjamin Lay, and a discussion on Sunday, November 5th at 2 PM in Brooklyn, NY. Join Marcus and ...
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