"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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... remembered for his failed raid at Harper's Ferry [West] Virginia, where he lead a small band of white and black men in seizing a government armory in October 1859. Born in 1800, he spent most of his fifty-nine years in pursuit of ...
... remembered long after as “the beginning of days.” Ruth's influence on him was great, and in autobiographical reflection he attributed to her a kind of “ascendance without usurpation” and credited her for whatever respect he gained in ...
... remembered by historians for his peculiar manner of writing, the tendency to spell words phonetically and inconsistently with almost no punctuation. “Owen was not educated in the schools,” Clarence Gee wrote, “but he had a good mind and ...
... remembered a particular visit that Hallock received from Hopkins in the summer of 1790, in which the two abolitionist clergymen exchanged notes and ideas. Hopkins gave Hallock an abolitionist pamphlet by the younger Jonathan Edwards ...
... remembered this incident, for it was the first time he witnessed righteous indignation overcome injustice. “Ever since, I have been an Abolitionist,” Owen wrote in 1850, “and I am so near the end of life I think I shall die an ...
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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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