His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry RaidPaul Finkelman An examination of responses to John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid by prominent scholars: what different segments of American society made of Brown's attempt to foment a slave rebellion and his subsequent trial and execution. |
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... failure at almost everything he tried , he was often in debt , and at times he was only a few steps ahead of his creditors , who on occasion sued him for large sums of money . At the age of forty - two he was officially declared ...
... failure at almost everything he tried , he was often in debt , and at times he was only a few steps ahead of his creditors , who on occasion sued him for large sums of money . At the age of forty - two he was officially declared ...
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... failure . His alienation from conven- tional society and from ordinary modes of thought encouraged him to take ... failed to begin an era of internecine warfare in the slave states , as Brown had anticipated , he found a surprising ...
... failure . His alienation from conven- tional society and from ordinary modes of thought encouraged him to take ... failed to begin an era of internecine warfare in the slave states , as Brown had anticipated , he found a surprising ...
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... failed to love him : as a teenager at Hamilton College , he once wrote his mother that he considered Peter Smith no more than his " nominal " father.23 John Brown's early history conforms to the backgrounds of these and many others ...
... failed to love him : as a teenager at Hamilton College , he once wrote his mother that he considered Peter Smith no more than his " nominal " father.23 John Brown's early history conforms to the backgrounds of these and many others ...
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... failure , Brown subscribed to all the Victorian values that his pros- perous and even distinguished supporters had used to gain their wealth and position.56 By far the most prominent figure was Theodore Parker , whose scholarly writings ...
... failure , Brown subscribed to all the Victorian values that his pros- perous and even distinguished supporters had used to gain their wealth and position.56 By far the most prominent figure was Theodore Parker , whose scholarly writings ...
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... failure to strike with dispatch and leave with the armaments before being sur- rounded . His study of guerrilla warfare should have made that a key tactical principle . In the same period , 1859 and 1860 , Garibaldi and his Red Shirts ...
... failure to strike with dispatch and leave with the armaments before being sur- rounded . His study of guerrilla warfare should have made that a key tactical principle . In the same period , 1859 and 1860 , Garibaldi and his Red Shirts ...
Contents
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LITTLEFIELD | 67 |
WENDY HAMAND VENET | 98 |
PETER KNUPFER | 119 |
Southern Politics and the Harpers Ferry Raid | 149 |
JAMES O BREEDEN | 174 |
ROBERT E MCGLONE | 213 |
SEYMOUR DRESCHER | 253 |
CHARLES JOYNER | 296 |
Contributors | 335 |
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His Soul Goes Marching on: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid Paul Finkelman No preview available - 1995 |
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Page 43 - I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done, in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments — I submit : so let it be done.
Page 217 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 64 - I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
Page 46 - John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave. John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave.
Page 58 - He was one of that class of whom we hear a great deal, but, for the most part, see nothing at all, — the Puritans. It would be in vain to kill him. He died lately in the time of Cromwell, but he reappeared here. Why should he not ? Some of the Puritan stock are said to have come over and settled in New England. They were a class that did something else than celebrate their forefathers' day, and eat parched corn in remembrance of that time.
Page 187 - This is my own, my native land"? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand?
Page 135 - ... inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.