"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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... John Brown's Body” (1928), but the sketch was apparently never used. The gravestone at the center of the “Fire from the Midst of You” A Religious Life of. eerie scene declares, “Here Lies John Brown.” West Virginia State Archives.
... Library; Michele Plourde-Barker of the Connecticut Valley Historical Society, Springfield, Massachusetts; Debra Basham of the Boyd B. Stutler Papers at the West Virginia State Archives; and Leslie Fields at xii | Acknowledgments.
A Religious Life of John Brown Louis A. DeCaro. at the West Virginia State Archives; and Leslie Fields at the Gilder Lehrman Collection, ably assisted by Inge Dupont, Sylvie Merian, and McKenna Lebens of the Morgan Library in New York ...
... Virginia, where he lead a small band of white and black men in seizing a government armory in October 1859. Born in 1800, he spent most of his fifty-nine years in pursuit of business success, though failing for the most part to achieve ...
... Virginia. Lionized in the North and hated in the South, he was a legend even before he climbed the gallows' steps on December 2, 1859. After the Civil War broke out in 1861, a playful soldier's song became associated with him, and “John ...
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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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