John Brown Still Lives!
America's Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, & Change
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Format: Book
Description: xiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose of the American republic."--book jacket.
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 Benét 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.
Subjects:
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.
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.
ISBN:
9780807835012 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Gil | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Gil | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.