Download or read book De l esclavage Plaidoyer pour John Brown written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Fayard/Mille et une nuits. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alors que les États-Unis ne sont encore qu'une toute jeune nation, les affrontements entre partisans et adversaires de l'esclavage, prémices de la Guerre civile américaine, font rage. À la tête d'une poignée d'hommes, parmi lesquels ses propres fils, John Brown (1800-1859) multiplie les raids contre les esclavagistes à la frontière du Massachusetts. Cet ardent défenseur de la cause abolitionniste devient rapidement un symbole de résistance. Quand il est arrêté en 1859 après l'attaque ratée de l'arsenal de Harper's Ferry et condamné à être pendu, Henry David Thoreau sort de sa réserve et lance un vibrant plaidoyer en sa faveur. Dans quatre discours enflammés, prononcés entre 1854 et 1859, le chantre de la « désobéissance civile », s'engage farouchement pour la défense de la liberté.
Download or read book A Plea for Captain John Brown written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Plea for Captain John Brown written by Henry David Thoreau and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Plea for Captain John Brown By Henry David Thoreau A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859. It was later published as a part of Echoes of Harper's Ferry in 1860. John Brown, a radical abolitionist, and twenty-one other men seized the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, the holding place for approximately 100,000 rifles and muskets, hoping to arm slaves and create a violent rebellion against the south. However, after thirty-six hours the revolt was suppressed by federal forces led by Robert E. Lee and Brown was jailed. The raid resulted in thirteen deaths, twelve rebels and one U.S. Marine. After being found guilty of murder, treason, and inciting a slave insurrection, Brown was hanged on December 2, 1859. Although largely called a failure at the time, the raid and Brown's subsequent execution impelled the American Civil War. Thoreau's essay espoused John Brown and his fight for abolition. In opposition with popular opinion of the time- Thoreau vehemently refuted the claims of newspapers and his fellow countrymen who characterized Brown as foolish and insane- he painted a portrait of a peerless man whose embrace of a cause was unparalleled. Brown's commitment to justice and adherence to the United States Constitution forced him to fight state-sponsored injustice, one he was only affected by in spirit. A unique man, Thoreau proclaimed in admiration, Brown was highly moral and humane. Independent, "under the auspices of John Brown and nobody else," and direct of speech, Brown instilled fear, which he attributed to a lack of cause, into large groups of men who supported slavery. Incomparable to man, Thoreau likens Brown's execution- he states that he regards Brown as dead before his actual death- to Christ's crucifixion at the hands of Pontius Pilate with whom he compares the American government. Thoreau vents at the scores of Americans who have voiced their displeasure and scorn for John Brown. The same people, Thoreau says, can't relate to Brown because of their concrete stances and "dead" existences; they are truly not living, only a handful of men have lived. Thoreau also criticizes contemporary Christians, who say their prayers and then go to sleep aware of injustice but doing nothing to change it. Similarly, Thoreau states those who believe Brown threw his life away and died as a fool, are fools. Brown gave his life for justice, not for material gains, and was completely sane, perhaps more so than any other human being. Rebutting the arguments based on the small number of rebels, Thoreau responds "when were the good and the brave ever in a majority?" Thoreau also points out the irony of The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, labeling Brown's actions as misguided.
Download or read book A Plea for Captain John Brown written by Henry Thoreau and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book A Plea for Captain John Brown written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Plea for Captain John Brown Annotated written by Henry David Thoreau and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I trust that you will pardon me for being here. I do not wish to force my thoughts upon you, but I feel forced myself. Little as I know of Captain Brown, I would fain do my part to correct the tone and the statements of the newspapers, and of my countrymen generally, respecting his character and actions. It costs us nothing to be just. We can at least express our sympathy with, and admiration of, him and his companions, and that is what I now propose to do.
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Download or read book A Plea for Captain John Brown written by Henry D. Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-06 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoueau, based off a speech that he originally gave in Concord, Massachusetts in 1859. John Brown was a slavery abolitionist who, along with 21 other men, stole 100,000 rifles and muskets from the Federal armory.
Download or read book John Brown written by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1909, W.E.B. Du Bois's biography of abolitionist John Brown is a literary and historical classic. With a rare combination of scholarship and passion, Du Bois defends Brown against all detractors who saw him as a fanatic, fiend, or traitor. Brown emerges as a rich personality, fully understandable as an unusual leader with a deeply religious outlook and a devotion to the cause of freedom for the slave. This new edition is enriched with an introduction by John David Smith and with supporting documents relating to Du Bois's correspondence with his publisher. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book John Brown and Armed Resistance to Slavery written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Brown and his violent attacks on slavery have been romanticized through the years. Find out about the man behind the myth and learn about his contribution to the abolitionist movement. The book is complete with timeline, primary sources, photographs, and excerpts from the time period.
Download or read book John Brown written by Louis A. DeCaro and published by INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Brown written by W. E. B. DuBois and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1909, W.E.B. Du Bois's biography of abolitionist John Brown is a literary and historical classic. With a rare combination of scholarship and passion, Du Bois defends Brown against all detractors who saw him as a fanatic, fiend, or traitor. Brown emerges as a rich personality, fully understandable as an unusual leader with a deeply religious outlook and a devotion to the cause of freedom for the slave. This new edition is enriched with an introduction by John David Smith and with supporting documents relating to Du Bois's correspondence with his publisher.
Download or read book John Brown written by W. E. B. Du Bois and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the preeminent Black scholars of his era traces the life and bold aspirations of a man who devoted his life to opposing slavery at any cost. W.E.B. Du Bois examines John Brown as a man as well as a motive force behind the abolitionist sympathies that helped lead to the Civil War. He traces Brown’s sympathy for slaves to an incident in his youth when he was warmly received by a family that treated their slave with casual brutality. At the time it was written, John Brown was widely considered a fanatic at best, a lunatic at worst, but here he is seen clearly as a man driven by his Christianity and his personal morals to oppose what he clearly perceived as a tremendous wrong in society, and to do so regardless of whatever toll it might take upon him. The author examines Brown’s impact on the minds of those who understood that the abolitionist cause was supported primarily by Blacks, on the lives of Blacks who discovered a white man willing to fight and die for their freedom, and by the masses who found that slavery was not only an actionable moral issue, but one of deadly urgency. Originally published in 1909, on the 50th anniversary of Brown’s execution, this is W.E.B. Du Bois’s only work of biography. Although less known than the author’s The Souls of Black Folk or Black Reconstruction in America, John Brown remains a classic distinguished by its author’s deep understanding and eloquence. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of John Brown is both modern and readable.
Download or read book John Brown written by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the text of the 1909 biography of abolitionist John Brown, written by African-American intellectual and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. The book has been edited by David Roediger.
Download or read book Testimonies of Capt John Brown at Harper s Ferry written by John Brown and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Brown Abolitionist written by David S. Reynolds and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2005 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant biography by a prize-winning cultural historian brings to life the controversial antislavery martyr who used terrorist tactics against slavery and single-handedly changed the course of American history.
