"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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... Thomas L. Vince, Historian and Archivist of the Western 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 ...
... Thomas Jefferson, reflecting his internal civil war, the raging conflict between liberalism and human bondage. These planters, we are told further, held relentlessly to slavery for fear of what their world would become if slavery were ...
... Thomas W. Higginson, who later became one of Brown's most important supporters, recalled visiting a slave market in St. Louis, Missouri, in the mid-1850s. Higginson entered at the moment three sisters were put up for sale—“nice little ...
... Thomas W. Higginson, “[white] men's startled consciences made cowards of them all, and recognized the Negro as a dangerous man, because an injured one.” Outgunned and outnumbered, most slave revolts were dwarfed by the militant giant of ...
... the few families in the Western Reserve area at the time who could afford to send their son back to New England to seek an education,” notes Thomas Vince. If they lacked anything, Millennial Hopes, Abolitionist Awakenings | 61.
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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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