"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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... father of a large family, he believed that slavery was not going to relent in the face of political compromise or moral outcries from abolitionists. When pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces clashed in the newly opened Kansas territory ...
... father, businessman, and soldier, he demonstrated his imperfections and would readily have acknowledged them in keeping with his belief in sinful human nature. But he was also a sincere and remarkably devout Christian. Of course, when ...
... father, Captain John Brown, a regimental commander of “a Body of Minute-Men” during the American Revolution, who died of dysentery while in service on September 3, 1776. Beside his widow, Hannah, Captain John Brown left eleven children ...
... father had gone off to war and his mother was left to run the farm by herself. A neighbor loaned the services of his Guinean-born slave to help with the plowing. Each morning, five-year-old Owen would escort Sam the African to the field ...
... father with respect to human rights issues. Owen was not inclined to the routines and rigors of farm life, preferring to establish a tannery and land “speculation.” Owen's tannery thrived and the financial surplus was invested in ...
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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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