"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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... (especially that of Stutler) is indispensable, and their names are forever linked with the John Brown legacy itself. No biographer of John Brown can succeed without drawing on the wealth of their labors, or appreciating the nobility of ...
... especially remembered for his failed raid at Harper's Ferry [West] 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 ...
... especially since pro-slavery advocates would naturally uplift what they considered upstanding examples of slavery in debates with abolitionists. Brown surely knew that slavemasters varied in their methods of control, in their exercise ...
... especially in matters of dishonesty and inequity. Once he went to great expense to track down a man who had passed him a counterfeit $5 bill. Another time he determinedly went to court over a stove pipe, losing the case at a cost of ...
... especially the Baptists and Methodists, which were to become more popularly representative of American evangelicalism in the nineteenth century. In reaction to the excesses and abuses of the Great Awakening, some Congregationalists were ...
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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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