John Brown

W. E. B. DuBois

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781317466789
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

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.

INDEX

A

Abbott, Captain, 208

Abolitionists, 38–39, 59

black, xiv, 119, 120

at Chatham Convention, 128–132

and Harpers Ferry plan, xv, 111–115, 145–146

and John Brown, 62–63, 104–106, 112–114, 145–146, 174–175, 208–209

in Kansas, xiv–xv, 59–68

non-resistants, 42

at Oberlin College, 21–22, 43

persecution of, 41 See also specific names

African Methodist Church, 123

Aiken, George, 128

Alcott, A. Bronson, 104, 145–146

Alexander, Robinson, 128

Alleghany Mountains, 19, 98, 137

American Anti-Slavery Society, 123

American Crisis Biographies, The, xii

American Moral Reform Society, 119

Amistad, 53

Anderson, Jeremiah, 128, 129, 142, 146, 147, 149, 155, 156, 164, 170

Anderson, John, 141, 170

Anderson, Osborne P., 130, 140, 153, 158, 160, 163, 169, 170, 180

Andrew (Governor), 104

Andrew, John A., 183

Atchison, 64, 85, 86

Avis, Captain, 162

B

Babb, Edmund, 151

Bailey, M.F., 128

Bell, James M., 128

Bibb, Henry, 121

Blacks. See Freedmen; Slaves and slavery

Boas, Franz, xvii

Boston Relief Committee, 102

Brown, Anne (daughter), 142, 143, 144, 147, 150, 151, 152

Brown, Dianthe Lus...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Series Foreword by Paul Finkelman
• Introduction by John David Smith
• Preface
• Chronology
• 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
• Bibliography
• Related Documents
• Index