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: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781442236707
• ISBN-10: 1442236701
• Artikelnr.: 42701141

Autorenporträt

By Louis DeCaro Jr.

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