"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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... friendship and support of Jean Libby, an academic, photographer, and documentary scholar whose tireless and ... friend, Sylvia Humphrey Spann, who has done all in her power to assist me in this work. Margaret Washington of Cornell ...
... friends but far more enemies, many of whom deeply resent his militant role on behalf of black liberation. To this day, many white American scholars, writers, and clergymen overtly dismiss him for what they perceive as misguided zeal and ...
... friends. By now Owen Brown, the patriarch of the family, was dead. But Jeremiah probably wished he could share his chronicle of rage with him. Owen's hatred of slavery exceeded that of any man Jeremiah had ever known—except perhaps for ...
... friends. The abolitionists were blamed for destructive agitation, and blacks were seen as a perpetual problem to the country, largely because of their own supposed inferiority and inability to coexist in equality with whites. A New York ...
... friend to the poor, white or black,” one local history recalls of Owen Brown. “There were many hidden ministries of love in which the left hand knew not what the right hand did.” As a public figure, the stuttering squire was well-liked ...
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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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