"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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... Later in the twentieth century, Boyd B. Stutler and the Reverend Clarence S. Gee found John Brown, and shared him throughout nearly four decades of friendly correspondence. Their expansive research and documentary work (especially that ...
... Later, Protestant theologians pointed out that according to the Bible a saint was merely a believer—one set apart from the world through salvation in Jesus Christ. No longer seen as divine intercessors or holy models, saints were ...
... later, whites in Cincinnati mobbed the black community again. When black men were jailed, ostensibly for their safety, the white mobs turned on black women and children.8 From the more “progressive” New England setting of John Brown's ...
... later became one of Brown's most important supporters, recalled visiting a slave market in St. Louis, Missouri, in the mid-1850s. Higginson entered at the moment three sisters were put up for sale—“nice little mulatto girls in neat pink ...
... later lived with an older married sister, who cared for his needs and taught him to read, though poverty and hard labor prevented any formal schooling for young Owen Brown. At this period a “great revival of religion” reached West ...
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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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