John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. |
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| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central. Available in HeinOnline Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law. Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. Available in HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice. |
Table of Contents:
- 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.