"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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... lived. Perceived as a Puritan “fanatic,” his violent opposition to slavery is thus thought to be consistent with his belief in “the wrathful Jehovah of ancient Israel.”5 These assumptions reflect an inadequate understanding of the ...
... lived bitter, unpleasant lives as victims of an overpowering system of dehumanization and domination. Yet ancient servitude was not defined by the dubious conception of “race” that characterized slavery in the Americas. Furthermore ...
... lived for a time with his grandfather, where he “was early brought under the influence of religious People.” He later lived with an older married sister, who cared for his needs and taught him to read, though poverty and hard labor ...
... lived in the vicinity and purchased a small farm during the war, returned to sell the property. Having brought a slave couple with him to care for the farm in his absence, the minister now intended to reclaim his slaves too. But slavery ...
... lived was the “Yankee exodus”—pioneer movements from Massachusetts to upstate New York, and from Connecticut to Northern Ohio, the latter including the family of Owen Brown, who moved from Connecticut to Ohio in 1805. In 1801, the Plan ...
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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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