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UNINA9910778828903321 |
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Gilpin R. Blakeslee |
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Titolo |
John Brown still lives! [[electronic resource] ] : America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change / / R. Blakeslee Gilpin |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
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1-4696-0260-1 |
0-8078-6927-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Abolitionists - United States |
Violence - Social aspects - United States - History |
Equality - United States - History |
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) History John Brown's Raid, 1859 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : cause and consequence : John Brown in nineteenth-century America -- Some definite plan : the early life of John Brown -- The final arbiter : Bleeding Kansas and the creation of the old hero -- Not buried but planted : cultivating the legend of John Brown -- A saint in suspense : competing visions of John Brown -- Discrimination and destiny : John Brown and the NAACP -- The soul rests : Stephen Vincent BeneĢt and the silencing of John Brown's body -- The fugitive imagination : a John Brown for the old South -- Revising Kansas : John Steuart Curry and the fanaticism of John Brown -- Together under arms : Jacob Lawrence paints Black history -- Epilogue. Climax and harbinger : a life as a common cause. |
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From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change. Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for |
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contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose |
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UNISA996204953603316 |
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The health and welfare of Australia's aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples / / Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Welfare Information, a joint program of the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Canberra, : Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1997- |
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Aboriginal Australians - Health and hygiene |
Torres Strait Islanders - Health and hygiene |
Aboriginal Australians - Public welfare |
Torres Strait Islanders - Public welfare |
Health Services, Indigenous - statistics & numerical data |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander |
Health Status |
Social Welfare - statistics & numerical data |
Iwi taketake |
Statistics. |
Periodicals. |
Australia |
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