Terrible swift sword : the legacy of John Brown / / edited by Peggy A. Russo and Paul Finkelman.

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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxx, 228, [8] p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Why Theodore Parker backed John Brown : the political and social roots of support for abolitionist violence / Dean Grodzins
  • They heard his call / the local Black community's involvement in the raid on Harpers Ferry / Hannah Geffert
  • How Rev. Thomas W. Henry of the AME Church met John Brown / Jean Libby
  • John Brown as founder : America's violent confrontation with its first principles / Scott John Hammond
  • John Brown and the legacy of martyrdom / Eyal Naveh
  • John Brown as "lawless fanatic" : a usable past for the postwar South / Charles J. Holden
  • A behavioral analysis of John Brown : martyr or terrorist? / James N. Gilbert
  • A psychological examination of John Brown / Kenneth R. Carroll
  • Hero, martyr, madman : representations of John Brown in the poetry of the John Brown year, 1859-60 / William Keeney
  • Beyond history : John Brown, raising holy hell, and posthistorical fiction / Bruce Olds
  • John Brown's fort : a contested national symbol / Paul A. Shackel
  • John Brown goes to Hollywood : Santa Fe Trail and Seven angry men / Peggy A. Russo.