"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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... serving political mythology—portraying the South as the land of enslavement and the North as the land of freedom. “The extent of prejudicial and discriminatory treatment of the Northern Negro is concealed or 14 | Part I: A Power above ...
... served as a pastor in Rhode Island, where he gained a reputation denouncing slavery as a great moral sin. Owen remembered a particular visit that Hallock received from Hopkins in the summer of 1790, in which the two abolitionist ...
... serving as Justice of the Peace in Hudson's early years, Owen was asked to arbitrate in property disputes, a role that often kept him away from home. Besides serving on grand juries, Owen was also elected several times to serve as ...
... serving on its board of agency, which made arrangements for the construction of the college building. One can only imagine what Owen must have been thinking as he joined the procession from the church to the new campus for the opening ...
... serving in the struggle for independence. In 1799 his son Owen, a hopeful twenty-eightyear-old tanner, purchased the sturdy house for his young family. It was from the small window panes of this “clapboard house, well built and ...
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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
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