Gilpin, R. Blakeslee.
John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change / [electronic resource] : R. Blakeslee Gilpin. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. - xiii, 279 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Ben�et 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2012.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Brown, John, 1800-1859 --Influence.
Brown, John, 1800-1859 --In literature.
Abolitionists--United States--Biography.
Violence--Social aspects--History.--United States
Equality--History.--United States
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--History--John Brown's Raid, 1859.
Electronic books.
E451 / .G45 2011eb
973.7/114
John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change / [electronic resource] : R. Blakeslee Gilpin. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. - xiii, 279 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Ben�et 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2012.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Brown, John, 1800-1859 --Influence.
Brown, John, 1800-1859 --In literature.
Abolitionists--United States--Biography.
Violence--Social aspects--History.--United States
Equality--History.--United States
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--History--John Brown's Raid, 1859.
Electronic books.
E451 / .G45 2011eb
973.7/114