Ambivalent Conspirators : John Brown, the Secret Six, and a Theory of Slave Violence /

The remarkable relationship among the six conspirators who aided John Brown in his famed 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry is dramatically exposed in this volume. Why did these six abolitionists, who were nominally pacifist, decide to subsidize an act of black violence?.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rossbach, Jeffrey
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Brown, John, > 1800-1859.
1859
Abolitionists > United States > Attitudes.
Slave rebellions > United States.
Abolitionnistes > États-Unis > Attitudes.
Révoltes d'esclaves > États-Unis.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Abolitionists > Attitudes.
Slave rebellions.
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.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. Anthony Burns and Ambivalent Violence
  • CHAPTER 2. The Massachusetts Kansas Committee: Sanborn, Stearns, and System
  • CHAPTER 3. Kansas Reflections
  • CHAPTER 4. "Riding Free Horses": Kansas Funds and North Elba Land
  • CHAPTER 5. Réévaluation and Revelation
  • CHAPTER 6. The Hugh Forbes Postponement
  • CHAPTER 7. A Theory of Violence and Assimilation
  • CHAPTER 8. The Harpers Ferry Raid
  • CHAPTER 9. Testimony
  • CHAPTER 10. The "Superadded" Conspiracy
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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