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):

Abolitionists--United States--Biography.

Abolitionists.

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

Violence.

Equality--United States--History.

Equality.

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

Harpers Ferry (W. Va.).

Brown, John, 1800-1859--Influence.

Brown, John.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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 like Thomas Hovenden, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908861-2-5

979-88-9313-452-0

1-4696-0260-1

0-8078-6927-9

OCLC:

773295688