The Oracle and the Curse : : A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War / / Caleb Smith.
Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper's Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown's shaped American...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Année de publication: | 2013 |
| Langue: | English |
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