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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... Buried , Confederate Unburied " 110 Postmortem , unidentified young girl III 4.4 . 4.5 . Postmortem portrait , woman holding baby 112 4.6 . " Field Where General Reynolds Fell " 120 4.7 . " The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter " 122 4.8 ...
... Buried , Confederate Unburied " 110 Postmortem , unidentified young girl III 4.4 . 4.5 . Postmortem portrait , woman holding baby 112 4.6 . " Field Where General Reynolds Fell " 120 4.7 . " The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter " 122 4.8 ...
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... buried in unmarked graves , recalled the indignities inflicted on the corpses of the poor , African and Native Americans , and criminals . Thus the effort to elevate the corpses of dead soldiers worked not only to sanctify the war but ...
... buried in unmarked graves , recalled the indignities inflicted on the corpses of the poor , African and Native Americans , and criminals . Thus the effort to elevate the corpses of dead soldiers worked not only to sanctify the war but ...
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... buried in haste , if at all . Often their corpses went unidentified . Northerners found well - tried ritu- als suddenly antiquated as they grieved for dead soldiers in the absence of corpses . These conditions threw people back on ...
... buried in haste , if at all . Often their corpses went unidentified . Northerners found well - tried ritu- als suddenly antiquated as they grieved for dead soldiers in the absence of corpses . These conditions threw people back on ...
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... buried beneath his grandfather's headstone in the place he loved most . Two weeks after Brown's execution , four of his coconspirators — two African American and two white — were put to death on the same scaffold . While the bodies of ...
... buried beneath his grandfather's headstone in the place he loved most . Two weeks after Brown's execution , four of his coconspirators — two African American and two white — were put to death on the same scaffold . While the bodies 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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