"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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... 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 Society, I was likewise kindly and patiently ...
... western lands, whites demonstrated a vibrant opposition to the black presence. In Connecticut, an 1833 law was passed to prevent students from out of state from attending school there in order to stop the founding of a black college ...
... Western 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 ...
A Religious Life of John Brown Louis A. DeCaro. others on the Western Reserve typified the prevailing racism of white settlers. “[S]ome Persons . . . [seemed] disposed to [quarrel] with the Indians,” Owen recalled, “but I never was ...
... Western Reserve College in 1826. Like Harvard, Yale, and other leading colleges, Western Reserve College also included a prepara“Squire” Owen Brown of Hudson, as he looked in his prime 26 | Part I: A Power above Ourselves.
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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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