Our Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, and the Civil War Era

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INDEX
Abolitionist literature, Southern confiscation of, 15
Abolitionists: Brown's view of, 10; reaction to Harpers Ferry, 11; Southern white view of, 15
Abraham Lincoln, A Press Portrait ( Mitgang), 86
Adair, Samuel, 38
Adams, John Quincy, on Stephen Douglas, 52
Allen, C.G., 34
Allies for Freedom ( Quarles), 40
The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It ( Hofstadter), 137-38
Another Country ( Baldwin), 6
Antietam Creek, battle of, 78
Antislavery movement, international, 15
Aptheker, Herbert: John Brown and, 44; on history, 2
Baldwin, James: Another Country ( 1962), 6
Beadle, Erastus, novels of, 114
Behind the Scenes:Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House ( Keckley), 139
Benét, Stephen Vincent, on Sandburg's Lincoln, 100
Billington, Monroe Lee: The American South ( 1971), 41
Billy the Kid, 114
Biography: definition, 100-101; form of, 121-22; historical site visitations and, 125-29
Black history, 4; white historians and, 5
Black suffrage, 71, 84
Booth, John Wilkes, 125
Branch of the U.S. League of Gileadites, 47
Brock, William R.: Conflict and Transformation ( 1973), 41
Brooks, Preston, 41
Brooks, Noah, Washington, D.C., in Lincoln's Time ( 1895), 86, 94
Brown, Dianthe, sanity of, 38
Brown, Frederick, sanity of, 38, 39
Brown, John: antislavery militancy, 47-49; biased biographies of, 22-23; business activities, 28-31; characterization by J.C. Malin, 30-35; characterization by T. Nelson, 44-48; characterization by A. Nevins, 36- 37; characterization by S. Oates, 48- 51, 123-24; characterization by O.G. Villard, 24-27; characterization by R.P. Warren, 29; characterization by H.P. Wilson, 28; commitment to abolitionism, 25; current prejudice against, 41-42; emigration to Kansas, motives for, 26-27; Harpers Ferry attack, motives for, 10-11, 19, 40,

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Table of contents

Table of contents

  • Title Page i
  • Contents v
  • Preface vii
  • One Styron's War Against the Blacks 1
  • Two God's Stone in the Pool of Slavery 9
  • Three John Brown and His Judges 22
  • Four Modern Radicals and John Brown 43
  • Five the Enigma of Stephen A. Douglas 52
  • Six Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation 61
  • Seven the Long Shadow of Lincoln 86
  • Eight Carl Sandburg's Lincoln 99
  • Nine Ghost Riders in the Sky 112
  • Ten Themes and Variations of a Civil War Trilogy 121
  • References 130
  • Index 144
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