...This chapter considers the impact of Dr Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808) on Coleridge's thinking about medical subjects. It deals especially with the two medical ‘grand narratives’ to which Beddoes devoted his professional life. The first was the medical system of John Brown, sometimes known...

...This chapter analyzes Graham’s Appalachian Spring (1944) as a work that encrypts its popular front critique of American history through revisions of the scenarios Graham wrote for Aaron Copland and changes in the choreography. The subtext of slavery and John Brown is discussed...

... with the impact of the railroad, and the agricultural barons of the upper Appomattox River valley suffer further economic embarrassment as the Panic of 1857 causes crop prices to plummet. The region has barely begun to recover from those financial woes when John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry aggravates the old...

... rights for Negroes in Illinois. Chicago's reputation in the South as a “sink hole of abolitionism” may be credited to the activities of Jones, John Brown, and their abolitionist friends. Among the early abolitionists, Jones was friends with L. C. Paine Freer and Dr. C. V. Dyer. Together they created...

... for his chronicles. He described a slave sale in South Carolina and praised Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. He also offered many profiles of U.S. abolitionists, giving special attention to Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass. In his treatment...

... martyr John Brown. However, when free blacks began entering the hall, a group of white Bostonians, outraged that the country was on the brink of war, began attacking them. Over chants of “Put the niggers out!,” Frederick Douglass shouted the kind of radical Brown-inspired rhetoric that was polarizing...

...This chapter focuses on Jacob Lawrence, a young black painter from Harlem, who finished a series of paintings called The Life of John Brown. Celebrated as one of the great American painters before he was twenty-five, Lawrence was an artist whose subject matter, method...

...Chapter 2 studies Douglass’s brief return to Britain in 1859-1860 to escape arrest in the wake of John Brown’s Harpers Ferry raid and examines why it was not as successful as his 1840s visit. His close association with Brown’s violent assault frightened away Quakers and other potential antislavery...

... their investment in the visual culture of John Brown, black Union veterans, and the future of Cuba. Just as these black activist artists backed the AME Church, so the AME Church leadership repeatedly encouraged its readers to collect, reflect upon, and draw inspiration from their images and the messages...

...This chapter focuses on how the Shenandoah Valley’s African Americans reacted to John Brown’s raid and how enslavers in the region responded. Although throngs of enslaved people and free blacks from the Shenandoah Valley did not join Brown’s army of liberation in large numbers as Brown had hoped...

...This chapter describes the discipline-centered culture of John Brown's family, to trace their belief in the abolition of slavery. John Brown thought of each child as he thought of himself: as someone constantly exposed to and needing to fight temptation. Images of Brown happily embracing corporal...

...This chapter recounts Mary Brown's 1882 tour in celebration of John Brown legacy. This tour came as surprise invitation from W.J.W.W. Washington and. She made plans to travel to Chicago and beyond with her daughter Sarah's help. Her trip occurred against a backdrop of heated debate about John Brown...

...In agreeing to survey for the Native Americans, surveyor John Brown no doubt realized that ridding Kansas of illegal settlers was good for both Ottawas and abolitionists. Earlier that spring, Major Jefferson Buford of Eufaula, Alabama, had arrived in the Territory with four hundred resolute...

...This chapter presents the editorials, “John Brown” and “Nat. Turner”, Fortune's side of a debate with Frederick Douglass Jr. over the need for African Americans to erect a monument in honor of John Brown. While Fortune saw the necessity of honoring Brown, he did not see the need of the African...

...Oxford University Press After brief comments on Hippocrates, Celsus, Cullen, and others, Barker discusses “the unfortunate [John] Brown,” whose “excentric notions & heated imagination . . . fascinated a considerable number of physicians, both in Europe & America.” About 1788, when Brown’s...

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... Wentworth Hinckley Alexis Sanborn Franklin Stearns George Luther Greeley Horace Lincoln Abraham Massachusetts John Brown Association Black settlements enclaves and family compounds Child Lydia Maria Hodges Willis A grantee settler Hyatt Thaddeus John Brown Farm State Historic Site Phillips...

...This chapter begins with the dentist Jesse Max Barber, who wrote the New York conservation commissioner and other Lake Placid notables about his long-dreamed-of plan for a Black pilgrimage to John Brown's home and grave. It discusses the colored people who have accumulated wealth in order to visit...

...This chapter tackles the interplay between transcommunality and models of community. It discusses John Brown Childs's statement with regard to harsh dichotomies that typically hamstring the efforts even to think about or achieve community under the conditions of modernity. Childs likens the ideal...

... of admiration of virtue, compassion to the distressed, and indignation against the wicked cause of their sufferings.” ³⁶ Ferguson was much less excitable, much less angry than John Brown, and hence perhaps something of his longevity and the origin of Brown’s eventual suicide. Life in Edinburgh...