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John Brown Still Lives! : America's Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change /
"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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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 Benet 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.