Pursuing John Brown : on the trail of a radical abolitionist / Joyce Dyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyer, Joyce, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Ohio history and culture

Series on Ohio history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brown, John, 1800-1859.

Brown, John.

Abolitionists--United States--Biography.

Abolitionists.

United States.

Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 515 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2022.

Summary:

"The idea for Pursuing John Brown began in Hudson, Ohio, where John Brown grew up and where Joyce Dyer has lived for forty years. In 2007, a chance occurrence started her off on the pursuit of her controversial neighbor, a quest that simultaneously pulled Dyer into his century, and John Brown into hers. In this work of hybrid creative nonfiction, Dyer retraces John Brown's steps across the country, occasionally taking roads that lead to tangential sites. Along the way, intimate questions form about John Brown's personal life-his role as son, husband, father, friend. Her pursuit forces her to confront hard questions about slavery, race, violence, and American democracy and brings her closer to understanding John Brown, herself, and us"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Glimpses of John Brown in Hudson, Ohio

A Lincoln Look-Alike

Reverie 1 Trains Don't Stop for Passengers in Hudson Anymore

The Case-Barlow Farm and the Underground Railroad

Twenty-First-Century Ohio Neighbors

Nineteenth-Century Ohio Neighbors

Losing Almost Everything in Richfield, Ohio

Reverie 2 "Some Can Bear More Than Others"

Mothers and Sons

Fathers and Sons

A Warehouse and a Storefront Church in Springfield, Massachusetts

Reverie 3 It Was Difficult Being Alone with This Man

The John Brown Monument Behind the Akron Zoo

Reverie 4 "Ready to Receive Its Meaning"

The Engine House at Harpers Ferry

Frederick Douglass and John Brown

Reverie 5 "Chiaroscuro"

North Elba and Timbucto

The Unburied

National Great Blacks in Wax Museum

Reverie 6 "Conflict of Emotion in My Heart"

Danger for the Secret Six

Danger for John Browns Family

Reverie 7 "For Thee and For Myself No Quiet Find"

Across All of Iowa

Reverie 8 "They Found a Way"

Breaking the Golden Rule

Terror on Pottawatomie Creek

Reverie 9 The Hawk Comesfor Me.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781629221366

1629221368

OCLC:

1285370120