"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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... look like he was a nut, a fanatic. They made a movie on it, I saw a movie on the screen one night. Why, I would be afraid to get near John Brown if I go by what other white folks say about him. The movie that Malcolm saw “on the screen ...
... look back on my life with but little [satisfaction] but must pray Lord forgive me for Christ[']s sake or I must perish.” While Owen Brown could hardly be considered a driven man, he was determined to succeed, and in the father there was ...
... affirming young Stearns's compassion for the Kansas struggle, he was inherently challenging him to look beyond the crisis of white Free State boys and girls struggling against southern bullies in Kansas The Early Years | 53.
... looks (she is “remarkably plain”), but for her neatness, economy, character, practicality, and common sense, not to mention the prompting of his father.8 John Brown's autobiographical sketch fits into what Ross Miller calls the “classic ...
... look at the account. Certainly the primary question to be raised is whether the abused black youth was really a slave. He did not record where the incident took place, though he mentioned that he had traveled more than a hundred miles ...
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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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