"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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... recalled that “most people considered Negroes little more than sheep with wool on their heads.”9 Knowing white people's obsession with the idea of race-mixing, politicians used the “threat” of miscegenation to fuel anti-slavery policies ...
... 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 calico frocks suggesting a careful mother”—the eldest ...
... recalled that his first involvement with a black person came in 1776, after his father had gone off to war and his mother was left to run the farm by herself. A neighbor loaned the services of his Guinean-born slave to help with the ...
... recalled, “but I never was.” Brown and other friendly settlers traded bread and meal with the Natives in exchange for venison, turkey, fish, and other meats, and even extended them credit. It was this same rapport with the Indian ...
... recalled Salmon Brown. John Brown “had the Mills temper. He was hotheaded.” Owen's “determined temper” was vivid, especially in matters of dishonesty and inequity. Once he went to great expense to track down a man who had passed him a ...
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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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