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Chargement... John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
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Few historical figures are as intriguing as John Brown, the controversial Abolitionist who used terrorist tactics against slavery and single-handedly changed the course of American history. This brilliant biography of Brown (1800-1859) by the prize-winning critic and cultural biographer David S. Reynolds brings to life the Puritan warrior who gripped slavery by the throat and triggered the Civil War.When does principled resistance become anarchic brutality? How can a murderer be viewed as a heroic freedom fighter? The case of John Brown opens windows on these timely issues. Was Brown an insane criminal or a Christ-like martyr? A forerunner of Osama bin Laden or of Martin Luther King, Jr.? David Reynolds sorts through the tangled evidence and makes some surprising findings.Reynolds demonstrates that Brownâ??s most violent acts â?? his slaughter of unarmed citizens in Kansas, his liberation of slaves in Missouri, and his dramatic raid, in October 1859, on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia â?? were inspired by the slave revolts, guerilla warfare, and revolutionary Christianity of the day. He shows us how Brown seized the nationâ??s attention, creating sudden unity in the North, where the Transcendentalists led the way in sanctifying Brown, and infuriating the South, where proslavery fire-eaters exploited the Harpers Ferry raid to whip up a secessionist frenzy. In fascinating detail, Reynolds recounts how Brown permeated politics and popular culture during the Civil War and beyond. He reveals the true depth of Brownâ??s achievement: not only did Brown spark the war that ended slavery, but he planted the seeds of the civil rights movement by making a pioneering demand for complete social and political equality for Americaâ??s ethnic minorities.A deeply researched and vividly written cultural biography â?? a revelation of John Brown and his Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I'd advise reading Patriotic Treason by Evan Carton & Five for Freedom by Eugene L. Meyer. Both texts are flawed but considerably less biased then this book.
The author treats Black Americans in a racist and dismissive manner, blaming us for our own captivity in tone. For not fighting our fight in the struggle against slavery.
This ignores that abolitionism as a concept isn't created by white folks in Western countries. Black West Africans organized and fought against chattel slavery starting in West Africa in the 1400's.
They fought in both North and South America as well as on every island in between. They used a variety of methods from outright rebellion, to uprisings, to murder, to running away, suing in local court systems, developing the Underground Railroad.
Black folks always fought and were beaten but not passive.
Ending slavery in the US was the job of it's creators and those that profited from it. It was never our job or moral responsibility to stop evil white enslavers, that was always the job of white people.
Much like the responsibility for today's proud boys and racist militias fall at the feet of today's white americans. Those are your people and the responsibility both for the evil they perpetuate and the duty to stop said evil falls on them.
Ending chattel slavery was always a debt white folks owed. They sacrificed their kids to it and I'm sick that any Black folks died for that.
Nah, die for your own sins.
The author's theories about why Black folks don't join Brown are based in white supremacy and I found them deeply offensive and ahistoritcal.
That ain't got shit to do with us.
Also the author strangely rewrites white abolitionists such as Walt Whitman as believing in racial equality when in in fact Whitman referred to Black people as 'baboons & wild brutes'.
Most white Abolitionists were white supremacists. They didn't believe Black folks were the same as or equal to them. They mostly didn't want Black folks enslaved because it caused white men to become so evil and endangered their eternal souls.
They really didn't care about Black folks.
In fact Brown himself was a white supremacist. As evidenced by a 'sambo' story he wrote. The story is printed in it's entirety in A John Brown Reader by Louis Ruchames which can be found at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/johnbrownreader00ruch
I believe that John Brown believed that Black folks had the potential to be equal to white folks but needed guidance.
I think this author pulls a lot of good research together but is ultimately unable to get past his own internal white supremacy.
It's unfortunate. (