"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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... writer and scholar, was the field researcher and interviewer who assisted Oswald Garrison Villard in the preparation of his 1910 biography of John Brown. With all due respect, it seems to me that Mayo's contributions—including an ...
... who “had my back” the whole time of writing. Perhaps her admiration for Sister Harriet Tubman has made her a doubly strong ally. Grace and Peace With all the purifying and liberalizing power of the Christian Acknowledgments | xiii.
... writers, and clergymen overtly dismiss him for what they perceive as misguided zeal and religious fanaticism. But underlying their biased narratives is often the contempt of American racial scorn—the resentment that a white man would go ...
... writers, it is also because of his strong religious beliefs. However different their political and social views, even his nineteenth-century opponents had a better understanding of his religious world view than do many biographers and ...
... writers 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 ...
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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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