John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change /
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10521880 |
Table of 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 Benβet 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.