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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828477403321

Autore

Du Bois W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), <1868-1963.>

Titolo

John Brown / / W.E.B. Du Bois ; series editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; introduction by Paul Finkelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

0-19-938433-9

0-19-938432-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois

Disciplina

973.7/116092

B

Soggetti

Abolitionists - United States

African Americans - Civil rights - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Philadelphia : G. W. Jacobs & Co., [1909], in series: American crisis biographies.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; JOHN BROWN; Copyright; Contents; The Black Letters on the Sign: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Canon; Introduction; Preface for the New Edition; Preface; Chronology; BOYHOOD AND YOUTH; THE TANNER; THE SHEPHERD; IN KANSAS; THE ABOLITIONIST; THE HARPER'S FERRY RAID; CHAPTER I: Africa and America; CHAPTER II: The Making of the Man; CHAPTER III: The Wanderjahre; CHAPTER IV: The Shepherd of the Sheep; CHAPTER V: The Vision of the Damned; CHAPTER VI: The Call of Kansas; CHAPTER VII: The Swamp of the Swan; CHAPTER VIII: The Great Plan; CHAPTER IX: The Black Phalanx; CHAPTER X: The Great Black Way

CHAPTER XI: The Blow; CHAPTER XII: The Riddle of the Sphinx; CHAPTER XIII: The Legacy of John Brown; Bibliography; Index; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A Chronology; Selected Bibliography; COLLECTIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHIES; BIOGRAPHIES; CRITICAL WORKS

Sommario/riassunto

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American



communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several