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Author Gilpin, R. Blakeslee.

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

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 279 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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, 1859.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807835012 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807835013 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807869277 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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