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Managing to avoid an air of overt exploitation despite considerable lurid content, writer-director David Burkman ’s “ Haze ” is a fictional portrait of particularly abusive fraternity and ...
Jun 1, 2013 · Blakeslee Gilpin's fine study joins a recent collection of titles that includes David Reynolds's magisterial biography, John Brown, Abolitionist (2005), Tony Horwitz's dissection of the Harpers Ferry episode in Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Started the Civil War (2011), Merrill D. Peterson's John Brown: The Legend Revisited (2002), and Andrew Taylor and Eldrid Herrington's ...
Oct 12, 2017 · Writer-director David Burkman’s “Haze” takes a somewhat different approach, mixing melodrama and docudrama — doing a lot better with the latter than the former.
- John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary? Overview. Professor Blight narrates the momentous events of 1857, 1858, and 1859. The lecture opens with an analysis of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.
Jun 1, 2006 · In this impressive biography of one of America's more famous antislavery figures, David S. Reynolds constructs a John Brown for twenty-first-century readers. Brown, according to Reynolds, was a terrorist, but a terrorist who was right to attack an entrenched slave system impervious to peaceful tactics.
- Stanley Harrold
- 2006
Signature. John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American evangelist who was a prominent leader in the American abolitionist movement in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the ...
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Events leading to the American Civil War. John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry[nb 1] was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia). It has been called the dress rehearsal for, or ...
