Author: Jonathan Wingate WinkleyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 166
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John Brown, the Hero
Author: Jonathan Wingate WinkleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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John Brown the Hero
Author: Franklin B. SanbornPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337364793
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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John Brown, the Hero
Author: Jonathan Wingate WinkleyPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021328007
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This moving tribute to abolitionist John Brown offers a unique perspective on one of the most influential figures in American history. Through the eyes of his contemporaries, readers gain insight into Brown's courage, conviction, and unwavering commitment to justice. Winkley's vivid descriptions and firsthand accounts bring to life the extraordinary events that shaped Brown's legacy, making this a must-read for anyone interested in the struggle for freedom and equality in America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
John Brown the Hero
Author: J. W. WinkleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331546146
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Excerpt from John Brown the Hero: Personal Reminiscences The sub-title, "Personal Reminiscences," is rightly appended to this volume. The old saying, "Much of which I saw, and part of which I was," the author can truthfully apply to himself in connection with the interesting and stirring occurrences here recorded. He relates the events because they were, in large measure, personal experiences. And the narrative is made up, for the most part, of historical matter which has not been presented heretofore by any writer. In other words, it is history at first hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
John Brown
Author: Jonathan Wingate WinkleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781293151594
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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John Brown
Author: Jonathan Wingate WinkleyPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781341366956
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
John Brown, the Hero
Author: J. W. WinkleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780649499588
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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John Brown the Hero
Author: J. W. WinkleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781973108641
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 69
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The interest attaching to this little book demands from me some noticeof its author, and of my indebtedness to him while preparing, twentyyears ago, a "Life and Letters of John Brown," which has since becomethe basis of several biographies of that hero. Dr. J. W. Winkley, longa citizen of Boston, was one of those who, in 1856, became a Free Statecolonist of Kansas Territory, then the skirmish-ground of the longconflict between free labor and Negro slavery. His residence there wasbrief (1856 and 1857), as was that of many who went out in the years1855-'58 to take part on one side or the other of the contest; buthe had the good fortune, as a youth, in the perceptive and receptiveperiod of life, to come under the influence of a hero; and this bookportrays the incidents of that interesting acquaintance. Nearlythirty years later he communicated to me this story, and I succinctlymentioned it in my book. But it required a fuller statement; especiallysince it seems largely to have escaped the notice of the chroniclersof that disturbed and confused period of 1856. The partisan movementshere described came in between two of Brown's famous fights,--that ofBlack Jack, in early June, when he captured the Virginian captain,Pate, and that in the end of August, when he repelled the formidableattack of the Missourians upon the small settlement of Osawatomie. Thebrothers Winkley and their comrades took up arms in the neighborhoodof Osawatomie, after the engagements of the first two weeks in August,which culminated in the capture of several camps or "forts" of theSouthern invaders of eastern Kansas, August 14 and 16. Fort Saunders,not far from Lawrence was taken by a Free State force under GeneralLane, August 14. On the 16th, another Pro-slavery "fort," garrisonedby a Colonel Titus, was captured, near Lecompton. The reason forthese attacks was thus given by John Brown, Jr., then a prisoner atLecompton, guarded by Captain Sackett with a force of United Statesdragoons (August 16, 1856): "During the past month the Ruffians have been actively at work, and have made not less than five intrenched camps, where they have, in different parts of the Territory, established themselves in armed bands, well provided with arms, provisions, and ammunition. From these camps they sally out, steal horses, and rob Free State settlers (in several cases murdering them), and then slip back into their camp with their plunder. Last week, a body of our men made a descent upon Franklin (four miles south of Lawrence) and, after a skirmishing fight of about three hours, took their barracks and recovered some sixty guns and a cannon, of which our men had been robbed some months since, on the road from Westport. Yesterday our men invested another of their fortified camps, at Washington Creek.... Towards evening the enemy broke and fled, leaving behind, to fall into the hands of our men, a lot of provisions and 100 stand of arms.... This morning our men followed Colonel Titus closely, and fell upon his camp (near Lecompton), killed two of his men, liberated his prisoners, took him and ten other prisoners, and with a lot of arms, tents, provisions, etc., returned, having in the fight had only one of our men seriously wounded.... This series of victories has caused the greatest fear among the Pro-slavery men. Great numbers are leaving for Missouri.... I see by the Missouri papers that they regard John Brown as the most terrible foe they have to encounter. He stands very high with the Free State men who will fight, and the great majority of these have made up their minds that nothing short of war to the death can save us fromextermination."
John Brown Still Lives!
Author: R. Blakeslee GilpinPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807835013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
"Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose of the American republic."--book jacket.
Difficult Reputations
Author: Gary Alan FinePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623049X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
We take reputations for granted. Believing in the bad and the good natures of our notorious or illustrious forebears is part of our shared national heritage. Yet we are largely ignorant of how such reputations came to be, who was instrumental in creating them, and why. Even less have we considered how villains, just as much as heroes, have helped our society define its values. Presenting essays on America's most reviled traitor, its worst president, and its most controversial literary ingénue (Benedict Arnold, Warren G. Harding, and Lolita), among others, sociologist Gary Alan Fine analyzes negative, contested, and subcultural reputations. Difficult Reputations offers eight compelling historical case studies as well as a theoretical introduction situating the complex roles in culture and history that negative reputations play. Arguing the need for understanding real conditions that lead to proposed interpretations, as well as how reputations are given meaning over time, this book marks an important contribution to the sociologies of culture and knowledge.