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John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, and change
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John Brown still lives! [electronic resource] : America's long reckoning with violence, equality, and change / R. Blakeslee Gilpin.
ISBN
9781469602608 (ebook) :
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 279 p.) : ill.
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Summary
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 substantive change. Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists such as Thomas Hovenden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, this book transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose of the American republic.
Variant and related titles
North Carolina scholarship online.
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Print version
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 06, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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