"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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... become if slavery were abolished.2 It is more than doubtful that John Brown was so naïve as to the nature of slavery. To be sure, abolitionist literature highlighted only the most extreme cases of slavemaster violence and debauchery ...
... Is history false that we expect the African to surmount every obstacle, of which his being enslaved is the least? What is he when free, at least so far as regards becoming a peer of the Anglo-Saxon? . The “Everlasting Negro” Question | 15.
... become of the Southern way of life should slavery be abolished. In the North, whites were traumatized by the notion that their communities would be overrun by immigration of free blacks or, worse, former slaves. Though whites living in ...
A Religious Life of John Brown Louis A. DeCaro. would become “an asylum for all the old and decrepit and broken-down negroes that may emigrate or be sent to it.” In Southern Pennsylvania, whites often petitioned state government to put ...
... become more like John Brown than we realize. Few Americans today would tolerate the sight of whimpering little girls torn from their mothers and sold on an auction block. Yet we forget that these travesties “were the commonplaces” of ...
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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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