John Brown : a biography

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Title:

Author:

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

ISBN:

9781563249716

9781563249723

Personal Author:

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Edition:

A new ed. with primary documents and introduction / by John David Smith.

Publication Information:

Armonk, N.Y. ; London : M.E. Sharpe, c1997.

Physical Description:

xxix, 222 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Series:

American history through literature

Series Title:

American history through literature

Contents:

Series Foreword / Paul Finkelman -- Introduction / John David Smith -- I. Africa and America -- II. The Making of the Man -- III. The Wanderjahre -- IV. The Shepherd of the Sheep -- V. The Vision of the Damned -- VI. The Call of Kansas -- VII. The Swamp of the Swan -- VIII. The Great Plan -- IX. The Black Phalanx -- X. The Great Black Way -- XI. The Blow -- XII. The Riddle of the Sphinx -- XIII. The Legacy of John Brown.

Abstract:

This new edition of Du Bois's John Brown includes the text of the original 1909 edition and is accompanied by a major introduction that underscores Du Bois's intellectual and emotional debt to the martyred abolitionist. John David Smith's introduction asks new questions about Brown's influence on Du Bois's emerging thoughts on race and society. Smith also provides contextualizing documents, including letters from Brown to his family and Frederick Douglass's account of his last meeting with Brown.

Personal Subject:

Brown, John, 1800-1859.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963-Views on human rights.

Subject Term:

Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Philosophy.

Added Author:

Smith, John David, 1949-

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First published in 1909, W.E.B. Du Bois's biography of abolitionist John Brown is a literary and historical classic. With a rare combination of scholarship and passion, Du Bois defends Brown against all detractors who saw him as a fanatic, fiend, or traitor. Brown emerges as a rich personality, fully understandable as an unusual leader with a deeply religious outlook and a devotion to the cause of freedom for the slave.

This new edition is enriched with an introduction by John David Smith and with supporting documents relating to Du Bois's correspondence with his publisher.