"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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... seems to me that Mayo's contributions—including an extensive number of interviews with Brown's children and associates as well as a myriad pages of notes and transcriptions—are just as important as Villard's work (if not more so). It ...
... seems to have loomed over the country throughout the Civil War.2 John Brown has had zealous friends but far more enemies, many of whom deeply resent his militant role on behalf of black liberation. To this day, many white American ...
... seem to place him in a stylized Northern context rather than as a man who was opposed to Northern racism too. Our conventional schoolroom lessons about North and South have all too often been based on self-serving political mythology ...
... seem quite positive, the author states: The negroes . . . have shown that they can live face to face with the whites. . . . We know how they have thriven, physically, intellectually, and morally among us. However much slaveholder and ...
... seems not to have converted to Christianity, and moved to another town to work.4 After 1790, Owen's mother and family enjoyed some improvement in property, farming, and livestock, which he later attributed to the “kind providence of God ...
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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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