"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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... fear of what their world would 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 ...
... fear was the spirit that energized slavery with tragic vitality. Black people were kept in bondage by fear of violence, murder, or separation. But whites were engulfed in fear as well—fear of slave insurrections, fear of competition in ...
... fears that they would never again be parents. When Levi's mother asked that they keep the child, the Browns agreed to take the infant as a member of the Brown family. Owen wrote of the arrangement as “addoption,” but it does not appear ...
... fear of Indian uprisings persisted in the minds of settlers. In contrast, Owen established a good rapport with the Native community, and when they “left [their] Tents,” apparently being forced to abandon their settlement by the ...
... fear was not the essence of Puritan religion, and Owen understood that the core of Christian doctrine is that God does not punish the Christian “in proportion” to his sins, since Christ was punished in the sinner's place. Indeed, Owen's ...
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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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