John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of WarSinging "John Brown's Body" as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death. As the bodies of these soldiers accumulated in the wake of battle, writers, artists, and politicians extolled their deaths as a m |
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... of slavery into the territories and , eventually , to emancipate slaves , the potential resem- blance between the plight of slaves and that of soldiers , both subject to extraordinary forms of violence , was especially acute .
... of slavery into the territories and , eventually , to emancipate slaves , the potential resem- blance between the plight of slaves and that of soldiers , both subject to extraordinary forms of violence , was especially acute .
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In light of their recent loss , Senator Bird and his wife feel a particular sympathy for Eliza , who has fled the Shelby plantation after learning that her son has been sold to a slave trader . Senator Bird expresses his sympathy not ...
In light of their recent loss , Senator Bird and his wife feel a particular sympathy for Eliza , who has fled the Shelby plantation after learning that her son has been sold to a slave trader . Senator Bird expresses his sympathy not ...
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From the scaffold , he prophesied apoca- lyptic violence that would punish the errant nation in retribution for the suffering inflicted on generations of slaves . Slavery , he predicted , " will never be purged away ; but with Blood .
From the scaffold , he prophesied apoca- lyptic violence that would punish the errant nation in retribution for the suffering inflicted on generations of slaves . Slavery , he predicted , " will never be purged away ; but with Blood .
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Any attempt now to separate the freedom of the slave from the victory of the Government over slaveholding rebels and ... 21 Douglass consistently argued that the nation could not be freed from its own sinful past until slaves were eman- ...
Any attempt now to separate the freedom of the slave from the victory of the Government over slaveholding rebels and ... 21 Douglass consistently argued that the nation could not be freed from its own sinful past until slaves were eman- ...
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In abolitionist discourse , the scene of corporal punishment , in which slaveholders wielded unrestrained violence over the bodies of slaves , represented the excesses of slavery . Abolitionists participated in a broader critique of ...
In abolitionist discourse , the scene of corporal punishment , in which slaveholders wielded unrestrained violence over the bodies of slaves , represented the excesses of slavery . Abolitionists participated in a broader critique of ...
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The Blood of Millions John Browns Body Public Violence and Political Community | 14 |
The Blood of Black Men Rethinking Radical Science | 40 |
This Compost Death and Regeneration in Civil War Poetry | 71 |
Photographing the War Dead | 103 |
After Emancipation | 132 |
Glory | 165 |
Notes | 177 |
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| Título | John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Cultural studies of the United States |
| Autor | Franny Nudelman |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | UNC Press Books, 2004 |
| ISBN | 080785557X, 9780807855577 |
| Largo | 226 páginas |
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