John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change /

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Auteur principal: Gilpin, R. Blakeslee
Collectivité auteur: ebrary, Inc
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.