"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 at Harper's Ferry, the violent efforts of 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 ...
... slaves. And any white man who is ready and willing to shed blood for your freedom—in the sight of other whites, he's ... slave market, and were thus righteously indignant at the social, political, and ecclesiastical realities of a ...
... slave auction to be held that weekend, and so found his way to the City Hotel. As slave flesh goes, this was an exceptional sale—featuring “Valuable Slaves, All from one Cotton Plantation in Carolina,” representing ten distinct families ...
... slaves could be purchased on credit at 6 percent interest) that was the highlight of the auction. Jeremiah Brown watched the ordeal, feeling desperate and helpless at the sight of human beings paraded before hungry eyes, blending ...
... slaves with savage glee but raped Negro girls in a frenzy of lust.” Rather than having a realistic sense of slavery and slavemaster, he says Brown imagined the South to be full of “ogres” and . . . “devils trying to graft slavery ...
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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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