John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of WarUNC Press Books, 2004 - 226 páginas Singing "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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... suffering - so the story goes - people grow complacent , taking the many privileges of citizenship for granted . Through violence , by contrast , they come to experience the depth and intensity of their re- lation to a larger community ...
... suffering - so the story goes - people grow complacent , taking the many privileges of citizenship for granted . Through violence , by contrast , they come to experience the depth and intensity of their re- lation to a larger community ...
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... suffering of grieving parents interconnects a large cast of characters — white and black , enslaved and free , Northern and Southern — allowing Stowe to dramatize the national character of slav- ery 10 Eliza Harris and her son Harry ...
... suffering of grieving parents interconnects a large cast of characters — white and black , enslaved and free , Northern and Southern — allowing Stowe to dramatize the national character of slav- ery 10 Eliza Harris and her son Harry ...
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... suffering inflicted on generations of slaves . Slavery , he predicted , " will never be purged away ; but with Blood ... suffer retributive violence at the hands of black insurgents , or of an angry God acting on behalf of the enslaved ...
... suffering inflicted on generations of slaves . Slavery , he predicted , " will never be purged away ; but with Blood ... suffer retributive violence at the hands of black insurgents , or of an angry God acting on behalf of the enslaved ...
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... suffer special tribulations that would precede the revela- tion of God's will on earth.2o The language of insurrection ... suffering to affirm the coun- try's exceptional status . Interpreting wartime carnage as an expression of divine ...
... suffer special tribulations that would precede the revela- tion of God's will on earth.2o The language of insurrection ... suffering to affirm the coun- try's exceptional status . Interpreting wartime carnage as an expression of divine ...
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... suffering . Indeed , the history of punishment in the United States and elsewhere is replete with instances , like the execution of John Brown , in which the scaffold be- comes the site of militant sympathy and criminality is ...
... suffering . Indeed , the history of punishment in the United States and elsewhere is replete with instances , like the execution of John Brown , in which the scaffold be- comes the site of militant sympathy and criminality is ...
Contenido
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 |
213 | |
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