"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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... passed into the hands of a collector, and then into the possession of the Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois. See Harvey Rachlin, Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones, and Einstein's Brain (New York: Henry Holt, 1996), 212–16. 11.
... Henry Clay, Walker's Appeal also burns with prophetic ire, calling upon a just God in condemnation of the whites, whom he interchangeably refers to as “Americans” and “Christians.” The work, which Walker organized into four sections ...
... Henry Highland Garnet, nearly carried away the convention with his militant cry. “Strike for your lives and liberties. Let every slave throughout the land do this, and the days of slavery are numbered,” Garnet declared. “Rather die ...
... Henry Stearns, the young son of one of Brown's most important supporters, George L. Stearns. When he visited the Stearns in January 1857, Brown had become a controversial freedom-fighter, and his stories of war against pro-slavery ...
... Henry, vicariously as it were, to the bloodstained threshold of the house of bondage. In so doing, the writer framed the entire story in the transcendent theme of a Heavenly Father who wisely guides and directs a young boy through the ...
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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
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