"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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... Ruth Mills (“the choice of my affections ever after”), a minister's daughter, in March 1793. For Owen, marriage initiated a golden age of personal satisfaction and growth that he remembered long after as “the beginning of days.” Ruth's ...
... Ruth herself nearly dying after childbirth. Later that year Owen and Ruth became foster parents to an infant boy, Levi Blakeslee, the son of the Reverend Matthew Blakeslee of Hartland, Connecticut. The arrangement to care for baby Levi ...
... Ruth were in Norfolk, Connecticut, a Southern Presbyterian minister who had lived in the vicinity and purchased a small farm during the war, returned to sell the property. Having brought a slave couple with him to care for the farm in ...
... Ruth had made professions of faith and joined the Congregational Church in 1798, while still in Norfolk, Connecticut. But he characteristically diminished his faithfulness: “I have [done] many things to wound the cause of Religion and ...
... Ruth.15 Owen Brown's story provides insight into the religious and social dimensions in which his controversial son came to manhood. But Owen's writings also testify to his own development as a “visible saint”—a humble, stuttering ...
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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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