John Brown still lives! [electronic resource] : America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change / R. Blakeslee Gilpin.

By: Gilpin, R. BlakesleeContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011Description: xiii, 279 p. : illISBN: 9780807869277 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Influence | Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- In literature | Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography | Violence -- Social aspects -- United States -- History | Equality -- United States -- History | Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.7/114 LOC classification: E451 | .G45 2011Online resources: Click to View
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 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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