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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilpin, R. Blakeslee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brown, John, 1800-1859--Influence.

Brown, John.

Brown, John, 1800-1859--In literature.

Brown, John, 1800-1859.

Equality.

History.

Violence--Social aspects.

Violence.

Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--History--John Brown's Raid, 1859.

Harpers Ferry (W. Va.).

Abolitionists--United States--Biography.

Abolitionists.

United States.

Violence--Social aspects--United States--History.

Equality--United States--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807835012

0807835013

OCLC:

706677594