LEADER 03322nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910778828903321 005 20230120092047.0 010 $a1-4696-0260-1 010 $a0-8078-6927-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000000080032 035 $a(EBL)880158 035 $a(OCoLC)773295688 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000570884 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11334584 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000570884 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10611870 035 $a(PQKB)10979010 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000244382 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30307 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL880158 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10521880 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL4012271 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC880158 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4321986 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000080032 100 $a20110303d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJohn Brown still lives!$b[electronic resource] $eAmerica's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change /$fR. Blakeslee Gilpin 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-1395-6 311 $a0-8078-3501-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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 Bene?t 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. 330 $aFrom 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 contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose 606 $aAbolitionists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aViolence$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aEquality$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aHarpers Ferry (W. Va.)$xHistory$yJohn Brown's Raid, 1859 615 0$aAbolitionists 615 0$aViolence$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aEquality$xHistory. 676 $a973.7/114 700 $aGilpin$b R. Blakeslee$01573403 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778828903321 996 $aJohn Brown still lives$93849129 997 $aUNINA