Ambivalent Conspirators : : John Brown, the Secret Six, and a Theory of Slave Violence /

Ambivalent Conspirators : : John Brown, the Secret Six, and a Theory of Slave Violence / / Jeffrey Rossbach.

The remarkable relationship among the six conspirators who aided John Brown in his famed 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry is dramatically exposed in this volume. Why did these six abolitionists, who were nominally pacifist, decide to subsidize an act of black violence? Jeffery Rossbach rejects the commonl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Rossbach, Jeffrey,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1983
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. Anthony Burns and Ambivalent Violence
  • CHAPTER 2. The Massachusetts Kansas Committee: Sanborn, Stearns, and System
  • CHAPTER 3. Kansas Reflections
  • CHAPTER 4. "Riding Free Horses": Kansas Funds and North Elba Land
  • CHAPTER 5. Réévaluation and Revelation
  • CHAPTER 6. The Hugh Forbes Postponement
  • CHAPTER 7. A Theory of Violence and Assimilation
  • CHAPTER 8. The Harpers Ferry Raid
  • CHAPTER 9. Testimony
  • CHAPTER 10. The "Superadded" Conspiracy
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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