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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

1 online resource (xiii, 279 p.) : ill

ISBN 9780807869277 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0807835013 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780807835012 (cloth : alk. paper)

Includes bibliographical references and index

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 Benet 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)773295688