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?.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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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