"Fire from the Midst of You": A Religious Life of John BrownNYU Press, 22. des. 2002 - 349 sider Reveals a complex new portrait of John Brown, radical abolitionist and leader of the 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry |
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... and a brother. The few who have thus far risen to this requirement, both of reason and religion, are stigmatized as fanatics and enthusiasts. —Frederick Douglass Introduction Reconfiguring Sainthood I acknowledge no man in human form.
... of their free status. Senator Stephen Douglas spoke in the spirit of whites in Illinois when he decried the notion that his state would become “an asylum for all the old and decrepit 16 | Part I: A Power above Ourselves.
... Douglass (who would shortly have a falling out with Garrison), thus wrote of meeting with John Brown in 1848. Though a white gentleman, [he] is in sympathy a black man, and is as deeply interested in our cause, as though his own soul ...
... Douglass had seen fire in John Brown, fire that burned as brightly as that of Garrison—but with a flame that threatened to consume slavery in earnest. Even in shades of old age and distant memory almost a half century later, Frederick ...
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Part III Providence and Principle | 81 |
Part IV In Times of Difficulty | 121 |
Part V Big Difficulties and Firm Footholds | 161 |
Part VI Enduring Hardness | 203 |
VII I Will Raise a Storm | 237 |
A Saints Rest | 279 |
Notes | 285 |
Selected Bibliography | 335 |
Index | 345 |
About the Author
| 349 |
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