"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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... wrote Howard Mayer concerning the antebellum period. In correspondence with Andrew Hunter, state prosecutor in John Brown's trial, one Southern agent in Vermont (apparently conducting surveillance after the Harper's Ferry raid), assured ...
... [sic] considerable part of my property was acquired in the lifetime and with the prudent assistance of my first wife,” Owen wrote. Taking counsel from Minister Hallock, the young couple began “with John Brown's Heritage | 21.
... wrote, “but he had a good mind and expressed himself well in writing, even if he used his own method of spelling and punctuation.” Hacked and skewed, Owen's writing nevertheless reflects his interaction with educated people, such as ...
... wrote in later years. While Owen and Ruth were in Norfolk, Connecticut, a Southern Presbyterian minister who had lived in the vicinity and purchased a small farm during the war, returned to sell the property. Having brought a slave ...
... wrote in 1850, “and I am so near the end of life I think I shall die an Abolitionist.”6 “We did not come to a Land of idleness[,] neither did I expect it,” Owen wrote concerning the family's move to Ohio in 1805. “I came with a ...
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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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