Download or read book Thoreau Sanborn John Brown and Slavery written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anti slavery and Reform Papers written by Henry David Thoreau and published by London : S. Sonnenschein. This book was released on 1890 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Brown written by Anne Schraff and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the life of John Brown, including his childhood on the frontier, his fight against slavery and the Harpers Ferry raid, his execution, and legacy in American history"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book John Brown and the Era of Literary Confrontation written by Michael Stoneham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical abolitionist and freedom-fighter John Brown inspired literary America to confrontation during his short but dramatic career as a public figure in antebellum America. Emerging from obscurity during the violent struggle to determine how Kansas would enter the Union in 1856, John Brown captured the imagination of the most prominent Eastern literary figures following his dramatic, though failed raid on Harper’s Ferry. Impressed by Brown’s forthright defense of his attempt to initiate the end of slavery, Whittier, Whitman, Melville, Longfellow, and Howells responded to the abolitionist with poetic tributes suggesting that Brown was a liberating hero, while Emerson and Thoreau celebrated his effort to inspire the nation to a new moral awareness of the common humanity of all men. Responses, however, were not uniform, as these and other figures debated the merits and meanings of Brown’s actions. This exceptional book sheds new light on how John Brown inspired America’s most significant intellects to take a public stand against the inertia of moral compromise and social degeneracy, bringing the nation to the brink of civil war.
Download or read book John Brown Abolitionist written by David S. Reynolds and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration of the paradox of a man steeped in the Bible but more than willing to kill for his abolitionist cause. Reynolds locates Brown within the currents of nineteenth-century life and compares him to modern terrorists, civil-rights activists, and freedom fighters. Ultimately, he finds neither a wild-eyed fanatic nor a Christ-like martyr, but a passionate opponent of racism so dedicated to eradicating slavery that he realized only blood could scour it from the country he loved. By stiffening the backbone of Northerners and showing Southerners there were those who would fight for their cause, he hastened the coming of the Civil War. This is a vivid and startling story of a man and an age on the verge of calamity.
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 Creating the John Brown Legend written by Janet Kemper Beck and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the triggering events of the Civil War helped divide a nation but also launched a cannonade of persuasive essays and propaganda. Early press reaction to John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry ranged from indignant horror in the South to stunned disbelief in the North. Brown's supporters wielded great power with their pens: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Lydia Maria Child. This book explores the moment when literature and history collided and literature rewrote history. This volume features 30 photographs, maps, proclamations and broadsides and a detailed timeline of events surrounding the raid.
Download or read book Two Addresses on John Brown written by Frederick Douglass and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes Frederick Douglass' address on John Brown and Henry David Thoreau's address titled A Plea for Captain John Brown.
Download or read book Henry D Thoreau written by F. B. Sanborn and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-17 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs. He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Thoreau is sometimes cited as an anarchist. Though Civil Disobedience seems to call for improving rather than abolishing government-"I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government" -the direction of this improvement points toward anarchism: "'That government is best which governs not at all;' and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have." Richard T. Drinnon reproaches Thoreau for his ambiguity when writing on governance, noting that Thoreau's "sly satire, his liking for wide margins for his writing, and his fondness for paradox provided ammunition for widely divergent interpretations of 'Civil Disobedience'."
Download or read book John Brown written by W. E. B. Du Bois and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biography of John Brown, an American abolitionist leader who as he first reached national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, was eventually captured and executed for a failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry preceding the American Civil War.
Download or read book To Set this World Right written by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set this World Right is the first book to recover and examine the voices, events, and influence of the antebellum antislavery movement in Concord. In addressing fundamental questions about the origin and nature of radical abolitionism in this most American of towns, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis frames the antislavery ideology of Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson--two of Concord's most famous residents--as a product of family and community activism and presents the civic context in which their outspoken abolitionism evolved. In this historic locale, radical abolitionism crossed racial, class, and gender lines as a confederation of neighbors fomented a radical consciousness, and Petrulionis documents how the Thoreaus, Emersons, and Alcotts worked in tandem with others in their community, including a slaveowner's daughter and a former slave. Additionally, she examines the basis on which Henry Thoreau--who cherished nothing more than solitary tramps through his beloved woods and bogs--has achieved lasting fame as a militant abolitionist. This book marshals rich archival evidence of the diverse tactics exploited by a small coterie of committed activists, largely women, who provoked their famous neighbors to action. In Concord, the fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins was clothed and fed as he made his way to freedom. In Concord, the adolescent daughters of John Brown attended school and recovered from their emotional distress after their father's notorious public hanging. Although most residents of the town maintained a practiced detachment from the plight of the enslaved, women and men whose sole objective was the moral urgency of abolishing slavery at last prevailed on the philosophers of self-culture to accept the responsibility of their reputations.
Download or read book John Brown s Journey written by Albert Fried and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the author's investigations into the personality, motivation and historical environment of John Brown, and discusses the new view of the abolitionist and his times which emerged from these investigations.
Download or read book John Brown Emancipator written by Louis DeCaro Jr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays by Louis A. DeCaro, Jr., a student of the life and letters of the abolitionist John Brown. These essays first appeared on the author's online publication, "John Brown the Abolitionist: A Biographer's Blog," and have been edited and presented here with new, extended critical introduction.
Download or read book A Plea for Captain John Brown Read to the citizens of Concord Massachusetts on Sunday evening October thirtieth eighteen fifty nine written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) was an American poet, philosopher, essayist, abolitionist, naturalist, development critic, and historian. He was also a leading figure in Transcendentalism, and is best known for his book "Walden", a treatise on simple living in a natural environment. Other notable works by this author include: "The Landlord" (1843), "Reform and the Reformers" (1846-48), and "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book John Brown 1800 1859 written by Oswald Garrison Villard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is inspired by a belief that fifty years after the Harper's Ferry tragedy, the time is ripe for a study of John Brown, free from bias, from the errors in taste and fact of the mere panegyrist, and from the blind prejudice of those who can see in John Brown nothing but a criminal. The pages that follow were written to detract from or champion no man or set of men, but to put forth the essential truths of history as far as ascertainable, and to judge Brown, his followers and associates in the light thereof. -- Adapted from the preface.
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.
Download or read book The Secret Six written by Edward Renehan and published by Crown. This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was one of the events that sparked the Civil War. This book tells of a group of prosperous and privileged Northerners who covertly aided Brown's cause, believing that armed conflict was the only way to purge the country from the evils of slavery. Photos.
