"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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... slaves and other blacks resisting the long reach of slavery into the North. But whereas most of them adhered to pacifism, Brown had steadily honed his belief in the forceful overthrow of slavery until he himself determined to lead the ...
... pro-slavery settlers culminating in the bloody Alamo incident of 1836 is commonly perceived as heroic and noble, even though the famous white insurgents were occupying land belonging to a government and nation that prohibited slavery ...
... slavery in abolitionist publications, which portrayed planters as “beady-eyed, Heaven-flouting” villains who not only “beat their slaves with savage glee but raped Negro girls in a frenzy of lust.” Rather than having a realistic sense of ...
... anti-slavery fanatic, it is often overlooked that he was part of an entire family that hated black enslavement and opposed it in many ways. Furthermore, the Browns shared the strong anti-slavery sentiments common in the Western Reserve ...
... slavery issue, was an ongoing source of division in the congregation.6 Along ... pro-slavery bulwark, while anti-slavery Northern Presbyterians sought to be ... pro- and anti-slavery sentiment was the colonization movement, a “curious ...
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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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