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John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change
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John Brown still lives! [electronic resource] : America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change / R. Blakeslee Gilpin.
ISBN
9780807835012 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807835013 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807869277 (e-book)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Physical Description
xiii, 279 p. : ill.
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 02, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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