"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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... winning “John Brown's Body” (1928), but the sketch was apparently never used. The gravestone at the center of the “Fire from the Midst of You” A Religious Life of. eerie scene declares, “Here Lies John Brown.” West Virginia State Archives.
... never forget the day he and his wife Alice showed us “John's Room”— the study where he kept his archives. The tour left no doubt in my mind why Edwin Cotter was on a first-name basis with “Old Brown.” Mr. Cotter befriended me as he did ...
... never been a priority on our nation's agenda. Beginning with the founding fathers, freedom and justice for black people was never intrinsic to the American dream, nor was it even so for Abraham Lincoln, the so-called Great Emancipator ...
... never been known.” By the time Brown was forty years old, 93 percent of blacks living in the North were prohibited from voting, either by law or practice of white society. While many New England blacks could vote, those in New Jersey ...
... never again be parents. When Levi's mother asked that they keep the child, the Browns agreed to take the infant as a member of the Brown family. Owen wrote of the arrangement as “addoption,” but it does not appear that the child was ...
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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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