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"Fire From the Midst of You" : A Religious Life of John Brown /
John Brown is usually remembered as a terrorist whose unbridled hatred of slavery drove him to the ill-fated raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. Tried and executed for seizing the arsenal and attempting to spur a liberation movement among the slaves, Brown was the ultimate cause celebre...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2002]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction.
- Part I. A Power above Ourselves
- 1. "And They Had No Comforter"
- 2. John Brown's Heritage
- 3. Revival, Resistance, and Abolition in the Time of John Brown
- Part II. A Good Cause and a Sovereign God
- 4. The Early Years
- 5. Millennial Hopes, Abolitionist Awakenings
- 6. "This Path of Life"
- Part III. Providence and Principle
- 7. Citizen Brown's Calvinist Community
- 8. Citizen Brown's Calvinist Community
- 9. Of Vows and Tears
- Part IV. In Times of Difficulty
- 10. Belted Knights and Practical Shepherds
- 11. "We Are Tossing Up and Down"
- 12. The Practical Shepherd in Springfield
- Part V. Big Difficulties and Firm Footholds
- 13. A Cold and Snowy Canaan Land
- 14. "So We Go"
- 15. "All the Encouragement in My Power"
- Part VI. Enduring Hardness
- 16. Ohio and Beyond
- 17. "Kansas the Outpost"
- 18. Pottawatomie and the Fatherless
- Part VII. I Will Raise a Storm
- 19. "The Language of Providence"
- 20. "This Spark of Fire"
- 21. "My Public Murder"
- Epilogue. A Saint's Rest
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author