"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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... Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, is another fine scholar who extended help and shared his time and rich insights during our meeting in 2000. At the Hudson Library and Historical Society, I was likewise kindly and patiently assisted by ...
... reserve”. * This and all other biblical epigraphs at chapter openings are passages John Brown marked in his Bible. All the texts marked by John Brown were made in the Authorized, or King James Version of the Bible, in an edition ...
... reserve” (in which slaves could be purchased on credit at 6 percent interest) that was the highlight of the auction. Jeremiah Brown watched the ordeal, feeling desperate and helpless at the sight of human beings paraded before hungry ...
... Reserve and eastern section) in the 1830s. For the most part, these whites were unfriendly to blacks and had no moral objection to slavery as long as it remained in the South. Their hostility to slavery was due to the presumption that ...
... Reserve in Ohio were devoted to “free schools, free churches, an open Bible . . . liberty of conscience, the Sabbath regarded and the pure worship of God maintained,” wrote nephew Edward Brown in 1875. The westward advance was “both ...
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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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