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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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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As he told the Virginia legislature , " the threat of martyrdom is a threat against our peace , and demands execution to defy such sympathy and such saints of martyrdom . " 18 In this instance , the logic of martyrdom , in which the ...
As he told the Virginia legislature , " the threat of martyrdom is a threat against our peace , and demands execution to defy such sympathy and such saints of martyrdom . " 18 In this instance , the logic of martyrdom , in which the ...
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Abolitionists participated in a broader critique of corporal punishment that placed sympathy in oppo- sition to state - sanctioned violence . From the late eighteenth century on- ward , sympathy , rather than force , provided the ideal ...
Abolitionists participated in a broader critique of corporal punishment that placed sympathy in oppo- sition to state - sanctioned violence . From the late eighteenth century on- ward , sympathy , rather than force , provided the ideal ...
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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 |
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John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War Franny Nudelman Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
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