"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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... Farm at Lake Placid, New York, and did in-depth documentary work on the Browns in North Elba along with the black colonies. I will never forget the day he and his wife Alice showed us “John's Room”— the study where he kept his archives ...
... farms, in urban workplaces and private homes, systematically appropriated to enrich the southern economy. It is true that only a segment of the South consisted of slaveholders, and an even smaller number of Southerners were planters ...
... farm. He seems not to have converted to Christianity, and moved to another town to work.4 After 1790, Owen's mother and family enjoyed some improvement in property, farming, and livestock, which he later attributed to the “kind ...
... farm during the war, returned to sell the property. Having brought a slave couple with him to care for the farm in his absence, the minister now intended to reclaim his slaves too. But slavery had been abolished in Connecticut by this ...
... farm life, preferring to establish a tannery and land “speculation.” Owen's tannery thrived and the financial surplus was invested in undeveloped land that he parceled into small lots, mostly for sale to farmers. Between 1805 and 1830 ...
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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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