John Brown still lives! : America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change /

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"From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to su...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gilpin, R. Blakeslee (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Temas:
Brown, John, > 1800-1859 > Influence.
Brown, John, > 1800-1859 > In literature.
Brown, John, > 1800-1859
1859
Abolitionists > United States > Biography.
Violence > Social aspects > United States > History.
Equality > United States > History.
Abolitionnistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Violence > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY > United States > General.
Abolitionists.
Equality.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature.
Violence > Social aspects.
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) > History > John Brown's Raid, 1859.
Harpers Ferry (Virg.-Occ.) > Histoire > 1859 (Raid de John Brown)
United States.
West Virginia > Harpers Ferry.
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : cause and consequence : John Brown in nineteenth-century America
  • Some definite plan : the early life of John Brown
  • The final arbiter : Bleeding Kansas and the creation of the old hero
  • Not buried but planted : cultivating the legend of John Brown
  • A saint in suspense : competing visions of John Brown
  • Discrimination and destiny : John Brown and the NAACP
  • The soul rests : Stephen Vincent Benét and the silencing of John Brown's body
  • The fugitive imagination : a John Brown for the old South
  • Revising Kansas : John Steuart Curry and the fanaticism of John Brown
  • Together under arms : Jacob Lawrence paints Black history
  • Epilogue. Climax and harbinger : a life as a common cause.

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