"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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... sons and daughters of Ham. It was a wrong to be sure, but if kept confined and restricted, such a wrong was best tolerated for the good of the nation. The realities associated with slavery in the United States are 12 | Part I: A Power ...
... son of the Reverend Matthew Blakeslee of Hartland, Connecticut. The arrangement to care for baby Levi was supposed to be temporary, perhaps to help his widowed mother. But the arrangement suited the Browns. Having lost both their sons ...
... son were different in temperament. “Owen Brown, our grandfather, had a determined temper, but was cooler,” recalled Salmon Brown. John Brown “had the Mills temper. He was hotheaded.” Owen's “determined temper” was vivid, especially in ...
... son came to manhood. But Owen's writings also testify to his own development as a “visible saint”—a humble, stuttering, stubborn Puritan whose salvation blended Reformation theology, personal piety, and a remarkable hatred of slavery ...
... 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 thoroughly finished,” that the toddler John first viewed the ...
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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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