"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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... kind assistance. Also in Springfield, many thanks for the faithful correspondence of my friend, Sylvia Humphrey Spann, who has done all in her power to assist me in this work. Margaret Washington of Cornell University has been so kind ...
... kind of “enthusiast” who “broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them.” But even Lincoln could not escape John Brown, whose spirit seems to have loomed over the country ...
... kind, they are questionable.4 But if Brown is misunderstood by modern scholars and writers, it is also because of his strong religious beliefs. However different their political and social views, even his nineteenth-century opponents ...
... kind of man John Brown was vis-à-vis his religious context and personal spirituality. Though Brown's most successful biographer to date has recognized the centrality of religion in his narrative, he presents a negative interpretation of ...
... kind of treatment in any crusading literature, that the worst aspects would be highlighted. But this does not mean that abolitionists did not recognize gradations in the treatment of slaves by their masters, especially since pro-slavery ...
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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
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