"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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A Religious Life of John Brown Louis A. DeCaro. II III IV 10 11 12 Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Reconfiguring Sainthood 1 I A Power above Ourselves 9 1 “And They Had No Comforter”: John Brown and the “Everlasting Negro” Question 2 ...
A Religious Life of John Brown Louis A. DeCaro. Acknowledgments. I am most grateful to Niko Pfund, formerly director of NYU Press (now the academic publisher of Oxford University Press) for encouraging me to develop my interest in John ...
... John Brown Farm at Lake Placid, New York, and did in-depth documentary work on the Browns in North Elba along with the black colonies. I will never forget the day he and his wife Alice showed us “John's Room”— the study where he kept ...
A Religious Life of John Brown Louis A. DeCaro. modern terrorism.” Yet he is best known in history for the raid on Harper's Ferry—though its underlying strategy and purpose are usually misunderstood and misrepresented in popular ...
A Religious Life of John Brown Louis A. DeCaro. As black people have long realized, their famous ally is considered fanatical and insane largely because he presumed their humanity in a society North and South that categorically ...
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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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