Louis Decaro

John Brown Speaks

Letters and Statements from Charlestown

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Produktbeschreibung

Paired with Louis DeCaro's narrative of the aftermath, trial, and execution of John Brown in Freedom's Dawn: The Last Days of John Brown in Virginia, this book preserves the first-hand experience of Brown as he gave his life for the abolitionist cause.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781442236707
• ISBN-10: 1442236701
• Artikelnr.: 42701141

Autorenporträt

Louis DeCaro, Jr., associate professor of history at The Alliance Theological Seminary in New York City, is the author of Fire from the Midst of You: A Religious Life of John Brown (2002) as well as works on Malcolm X and the urban church.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I. "John Brown's Prison Letters"
October 21 "Do Not Send An Ultra Abolitionist": Three Identical Letters,
Requesting Legal Support
October 31 "Thousands Are Thirsting For My Blood": His First Letter to His
Wife and Family November 1 "God Will Surely Attend to His Own Cause":
Response to an Anonymous Quaker (and) "Your Humble Servant, John Brown":
Requesting Legal Aid for One of His Men
November 4 "Do Persuade Her to Remain at Home": A Letter Urging that His
Wife Not Come to Virginia (and) "You Can Do Me Immense Good Where You Are":
Turning Down a Visit
November 8 "Think Too of the Crushed Millions": A Letter to His Wife and
Family
November 10 "The Cause We Love": Another Letter to His Wife
November 12 "I Am Worth Inconceivably More to Hang": A Letter to His
Brother
November 15 "You Do Me More Than Justice": Letter to a Christian Admirer in
Boston (and) "I Have Enjoyed Much of Life": A Letter to His Old Teacher
November 16 "A Life of Some Experience & of Much Observation": A Fourth
Letter to His Wife
November 17 "Men Cannot Imprison, or Chain, or Hang the Soul": Letter to a
Young Associate
November 19 "No Part of My Life Has Been More Happily Spent": Letter to a
Supportive Cousin (and) "Do Not Grieve for My Fate": An Excerpt from
Another Family Letter
November 21 "This Is Just As It Should Be": A Fifth Letter to His Wife
November 22
"Worthy to Suffer for the Truth": A Letter to His Children in North Elba
(and) "A Calm Peace Seems to Fill My Mind": A Letter to His Son and
Daughter-in-Law in Ohio (and) "The Slaves We Took About the Ferry": A
Letter to His Prosecutor (and) "Yours for God & the Right": Letter of
Thanks to One of His "Secret Six"
November 23 "There Are No Ministers of Christ Here": Letter to an Ohio
Clergyman
November 24 "Faithfully, Plainly & Kindly": Letter to a Friend of Means and
Support (and) "I Am Getting More Letters Constantly": A Letter to His Young
Attorney
November 25 "I Have No Reason to be Ashamed": A Letter to a Critical
Relative (and) "I Know Lucretia Mott": Letter to a Philadelphia
Abolitionist
November 26 "The Time Passes Quite Pleasantly": A Sixth Letter to His Wife
(and) "Down to the River of Death": A Letter of Thanks for a Generous Gift
November 27 "Those Who Die for the Truth May Prove to Be Conquerors":
Letter to a Friend's Daughter (and) A Missing Letter? (and) "I Am Weeping
for Joy & Gratitude": A Letter to His Sisters
November 28 "New & Very Different Scenes": A Letter to An Ally and
Supporter (and) "The Opportunity to Plead for the Right": Letter to an Ohio
Judge (and) "After I Am Disposed Of": Another Letter to His Brother (and)
"My Father's Estate": A Business Letter
November 29 "Till 'I Have Showed His Power to This Generation'": A Warm
Letter to a Clergyman (and) "When I Am Publicly Murdered": A Letter to a
Prominent Woman (and) "I Have No Doubt But Both Are Dead": Letter to the
Brother of a Fallen Raider (and) "The God of the Oppressed and the Poor": A
Letter of Appreciation to An Activist
November 30 "My Dear Shattered & Broken Family": A Final Family Letter
(and) "Time and Ability": Letter to the Sister of an Escaped Raider
(and)"It is Out of My Power": A Letter to Another Supporter (and) "Gross
and Intentional Misrepresentation": Letter to a Virginia Editor
December 1 A Lost Letter to His Nieces (and) "Your Brother Farewell": A
Last Letter to His Brother in Ohio (and) "Grateful for All the Good Feeling
Expressed": Letter to an Old Pennsylvania Friend (and) "My Earnest Thanks":
A Letter to An Old Wool Associate (and) "I Trust God Is With Me": Two
Friends, Two "Form Letters (and) "I Am Not Afraid to Die": A Letter
Fragment
December 2 "My Last Great Change": A Letter to An Old Friend (and) "Another
Farewell": An Addendum to His Will (and) "Better Than the Mighty": A Double
Entendre for His Cellmate
Section II. Statements and Documents
Statements in Court, October 25-November 2, 1859
Instructions to His Virginia Attorneys
Remarks on a Published Sermon by Henry Ward Beecher
First Last Will, December 1, 1859
Memorial Stone Instructions, Addendum to First Will, and "True Last Will
and Testament" with Codicil, December 2
The so-called Prophecy ("Autograph" for Hiram O'Bannon), December 2
John Brown's Prison Bible: Selected Texts
Section III. Antislavery and Proslavery Interviews
Friday, October 21 "A Visit to the Prisoners in Charlestown" Baltimore
American and Commercial Advertiser, 24 Oct. 1859, 1.
Friday, October 21 "Interview with Capt. Brown" Reprinted from the Spirit
of Jefferson [Charlestown, Va.], in Baltimore American and Commercial
Advertiser, 24 Oct. 1859, 1.
Friday, October 21 An Interview Questionnaire, Independent Democrat
[Charlestown, Va.], 22 Nov. 1859
Sunday, October 30 "Visit of the Military to Old Brown." New York Herald,
31 Oct. 1859, 1.
Tuesday, November 1, 1859 "Brown in Jail." (and) "Public Feeling-Sentence
of Brown-State of the Prisoner," New York Tribune, 5 Nov. 1859, 5.
Wednesday, November 2, 1859 "Interviews with Old Brown." (and) "A Visit to
Charlestown," New York Times, 7 Nov. 1859, 4, in The Boston Traveller.
Thursday, November 3 "Brown And His Friends."(and "John Brown's Invasion,"
New York Tribune, 7 Nov. 1859, 6.Friday, November 4, 1859 "About Brown."
(and) "John Brown's Invasion," New York Tribune, 9 Nov. 1859, 5.Friday,
November 4, 1859 "What Brown's Plan Really Was." (and) "John Brown's
Invasion," New York Tribune, 9 Nov. 1859, 5.Friday, November 4, 1859 "Visit
to Old Brown." (and) [Unidentified pro-slavery correspondent], New York
Herald, 10 Nov. 1859, 5.
Monday, November 7, 1859 "Appearance of the Prisoners." (and) "Our
Charlestown Correspondence," New York Herald, 10 Nov. 1859, 5.
Wednesday, November 9, 1859. "Brown And His Place Of Confinement." (and)
"The Trials at Charlestown," New York Tribune, 12 Nov. 1859, 6.Monday,
November 21, 1859. "The Prisoners." (and) "John Brown's Invasion," New York
Tribune, 24 Nov. 1859, 6.Tuesday, November 21, 1859. "Interview with Capt.
Brown." (and) "Charlestown Intelligence," Baltimore American and Commercial
Advertiser, 23 Nov. 1859, 1.
Tuesday, November 22, 1859. "What Brown Has Accomplished." (and) "John
Brown's Invasion," New York Tribune, 25 Nov. 1859, 5.Wednesday, November
23, 1859. "Brown's Interview with a Minister." (and) "Affairs at
Charlestown. Correspondence of the Baltimore American and Commercial
Advertiser," New York Herald, 1 Dec. 1859, 10.
Wednesday, October 26, 1859. "The Harper's Ferry Outbreak," New York
Herald, 27 Oct. 1859, 3.
Wednesday, October 26, 1859. "Old Brown's Opinion of the Herald."(and) "The
Harper's Ferry Outbreak," New York Herald, 27 Oct. 1859, 3.
Sunday, November 27, 1859. "Brown's Condition." (and) "John Brown's
Invasion," New York Tribune, 30 Nov. 1859, 6.Monday, November 28, 1859. "A
Visit to the Prisoners." (and) "From Charlestown," New York Tribune, 30
Nov. 1859, 6.
Monday, November 28, 1859. "The Place of Execution." (and) "John Brown's
Invasion. Correspondence of The N.Y. Tribune," 1 Dec., 6.
Tuesday, November 29, 1859. "Very Latest." (and) "Special Dispatch to The
N.Y. Tribune," New York Tribune, 30 Nov. 1859, 5.
Section IV. Reminiscences of John Brown in Jail
1. "The Cause I Love So Much": The Account of a Quaker Visitor (1859)
2. "He Died Game": The Final Assessment of the Tribune's Undercover
Journalist (1859)
3. "A Man of One Idea": A Proslavery Doctor's Description (1860)
4. "His Fortitude Was Sublime": His Lawyer's Recollections (1867)
5. "The Pre-Present of the Great Idea": A Virginia Unionist's Reappraisal
(1868)
6. "A Very Able Man": Reminiscence of a Virginia Secessionist (1883)
7. "The End Cometh": Reminiscence of a Kansas Associate (1887)
8. "It Will Go Down in Blood and Carnage": Recollections of an Old
Journalist