An edition of Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown
(2005)
Terrible Swift Sword
The Legacy of John Brown
by Paul Finkelman
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"Through the prisms of history, literature, psychology, criminal justice, oral history, African American studies, political science, film studies, and anthropology, Terrible Swift Sword offers insights not only into John Brown's character and motives but also into the nature of a troubled society before, during, and after the Civil War. The contributors discuss reasons why some of Brown's contemporaries supported him, analyze Brown's behavior and his depiction in literature, and examine the iconography and mythology surrounding him from a post-9/11 perspective."--Jacket.
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Antislavery movements, Influence, Abolitionists, Biography, History, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865People
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Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown
2005, Ohio University Press
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0821416308 9780821416303
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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