"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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... Salmon Brown. John Brown “had the Mills temper. He was hotheaded.” Owen's “determined temper” was vivid, especially in matters of dishonesty and inequity. Once he went to great expense to track down a man who had passed him a ...
... Salmon gave her a worse time of it. Indeed, both John and Salmon were probably following the example of Levi Blakeslee, who was nearly sixteen and resented Sally's parental authority. If John played pranks on his stepmother it was ...
... Salmon, Oliver Owen, and Frederick were all a vital part of his early life and doubtless shared his strong convictions about slavery.9 The dominant stylization of Brown's autobiography is also the real climax of the narrative—John's ...
... Salmon. (Brown's cousin on his mother's side, Heman Humphrey, was president and head professor at Amherst at the time.) With no preparatory school or college yet established in the Western Reserve, prosperous Owen Brown saw an ...
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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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