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Title: Fire from the Midst of You": A Religious Life of John Brown by Louis A., Jr. DeCaro ISBN: 0-8147-1921-X Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: John Brown the Puritan
Comment: Louis DeCaro Jr. has presented a perspective of John Brown that has largely been hidden from most biographical studies. He shows us John Brown, the evangelical Christian, deeply rooted in reform theology and a student of the Puritans. DeCaro reveals the theological aspects that caused John Brown to pursue a course of justice for those held in the bondage of slavery, ultimately resulting in the raid on Harper's Ferry.Whether one agrees with the actions of John Brown in his quest to free the slaves or not, we are shown the thinking that led to his attempt to overthrow the system.
I believe the issues raised by this book are instructive in understanding the possible future course of those engaged in the fight against abortion.It is not inconceivable to imagine another "John Brown" rising up in the quest to bringing about justice for the unborn.
Rating: 5
Summary: Moral and mortal John Brown
Comment: This is the first actual biography of John Brown published since the 1970s, by historian and religious educator Louis A. DeCaro, Jr. It skillfully contextualizes John Brown's religious and abolitionist development within his Calvinist background and the evangelical movement of ninteenth century America. John Brown is is shown -- through careful and lengthy research -- as a son, brother, husband (twice), and father as well as the leader of the militant abolitionists. The book is especially rich with the relationship of John Brown to African Americans, notably free people in the North who were creating communities of families and congregations in Springfield, Massachusetts and in Essex County, New York. These individuals come alive in their relationship with John Brown, who the author calls "the practical shepherd," assisting with ownership of small farms and businesses, extending the American dream of self-sufficiency, land ownership, and the rights of citizenship to African Americans. DeCaro has researched Thomas Thomas, first an employee at John Brown's wool warehouse and then a resturanteur who moves to Illinois and becomes a friend of Abraham Lincoln: "Brown and Lincoln never came so close as they did in friendship with Thomas Thomas, and the black man could speak with some authority about both leaders." Dr. DeCaro does not flinch from analysis of the Pottawatomie Massacre in Kansas in 1856, and develops an accurate background of the threatening acts of the victims. He examines several historical viewpoints about the incident, and has found a recollection by the grandaughter of Henry Thompson, the son-in-law of John Brown who was part of the violent attack. The author asks: "perhaps a fundamentally different question is needed to frame the Pottawatomie killings. What kind of circumstances would drive exceptionally moral and religious people like the Browns to such desparate measures?" This biographer of John Brown feels his subject deeply, from his heart, and from his chest as he breathes new life into the complex and human individual whose moral fire made people worldwide think about the immorality of slavery.
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Title: John Brown: The Legend Revisited by Merrill D. Peterson ISBN: 0813921325 Publisher: University of Virginia Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired With John Brown by Edward J. Renehan ISBN: 1570031819 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown by Warren Oates, Stephen B. Oates ISBN: 0870234587 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: August, 1984 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Allies for Freedom and Blacks on John Brown by Benjamin Quarles, William S. McFeely ISBN: 0306809613 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: John Brown by David R. Roediger, W.E.B. Du Bois ISBN: 0679783539 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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