John Brown speaks : letters and statements from Charlestown /
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| Author / Creator: | Brown, John, 1800-1859, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Works. Selections. |
| Imprint: | Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015] |
| Description: | xxxi, 211 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10360892 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Editor's Note on Letter Transcription
- Part I. "John Brown's Prison Letters"
- October 21
- "Do Not Send an Ultra Abolitionist": Three Identical Letters, Requesting Legal Support
- October 31
- "Thousands Are Thirsting for My Blood": His First Letter to His Wife and Family
- November 1
- "God Will Surely Attend to His Own Cause": Response to an Anonymous Quaker
- "Your Humble Servant, John Brown": Requesting Legal Aid for One of His Men
- November 4
- "Do Persuade Her to Remain at Home": A Letter Urging that His Wife Not Come to Virginia
- "You Can Do Me Immense Good Where You Are": Turning Down a Visit
- November 8
- "Think Too of the Crushed Millions": A Letter to His Wife and Family
- November 10
- "The Cause We Love": Another Letter to His Wife
- November 12
- "I Am Worth Inconceivably More to Hang": A Letter to His Brother
- November 15
- "You Do Me More Than Justice": Letter to a Christian Admirer in Boston
- "I Have Enjoyed Much of Life": A Letter to His Old Teacher
- November 16
- "A Life of Some Experience & of Much Observation": A Fourth Letter to His Wife
- November 17
- "Men Cannot Imprison, or Chain, or Hang the Soul": Letter to a Young Associate
- November 19
- "No Part of My Life Has Been More Happily Spent": Letter to a Supportive Cousin
- "Do Not Grieve for My Fate": An Excerpt from Another Family Letter
- November 21
- "This Is Just as It Should Be": A Fifth Letter to His Wife
- November 22
- "Worthy to Suffer for the Truth": A Letter to His Children in North Elba
- "A Calm Peace Seems to Fill My Mind": A Letter to His Son and Daughter-in-Law in Ohio
- "The Slaves We Took about the Ferry": A Letter to His Prosecutor
- "Yours for God & the Right": Letter of Thanks to One of His "Secret Six"
- November 23
- "There Are No Ministers of Christ Here": Letter to an Ohio Clergyman
- November 24
- "Faithfully, Plainly & Kindly": Letter to a Friend of Means and Support
- "I Am Getting More Letters Constantly": A Letter to His Young Attorney
- November 25
- "I Have No Reason to be Ashamed": A Letter to a Critical Relative
- "I Know Lucretia Mott": Letter to a Philadelphia Abolitionist
- November 26
- "The Time Passes Quite Pleasantly": A Sixth Letter to His Wife
- "Down to the River of Death": A Letter of Thanks for a Generous Gift
- November 27
- "Those Who Die for the Truth May Prove to Be Conquerors": Letter to a Friend's Daughter
- A Missing Letter?
- "I Am Weeping for Joy & Gratitude": A Letter to His Sisters
- November 28
- "New 8c Very Different Scenes": A Letter to an Ally and Supporter
- "The Opportunity to Plead for the Right": Letter to an Ohio Judge
- "After I Am Disposed Of": Another Letter to His Brother
- "My Father's Estate": A Business Letter
- November 29
- "Till T Have Showed His Power to This Generation'": A Warm Letter to a Clergyman
- "When I Am Publicly Murdered": A Letter to a Prominent Woman
- "I Have No Doubt But Both Are Dead": Letter to the Brother of a Fallen Raider
- "The God of the Oppressed and the Poor": A Letter of Appreciation to an Activist
- November 30
- "My Dear Shattered & Broken Family": A Final Family Letter
- "Time and Ability": Letter to the Sister of an Escaped Raider
- "It Is Out of My Power": A Letter to Another Supporter
- "Gross and Intentional Misrepresentation": Letter to a Virginia Editor
- December 1
- A Lost Letter to His Nieces
- "Your Brother Farewell": A Last Letter to His Brother in Ohio
- "Grateful for All the Good Feeling Expressed": Letter to an Old Pennsylvania Friend
- "My Earnest Thanks": A Letter to an Old Wool Associate
- "I Trust God Is with Me": Two Friends, Two "Form Letters"
- "I Am Not Afraid to Die": A Letter Fragment
- December 2
- "My Last Great Change": A Letter to an Old Friend
- "Another Farewell": An Addendum to His Will
- "Better than the Mighty": A Double Entendre for His Cell Mate
- Part II. Statements and Documents
- Statements in Court, October 25-November 2, 1859
- Instructions to His Virginia Attorneys
- Remarks on a Published Sermon by Henry Ward Beecher
- First Last Will, December 1, 1859
- Memorial Stone Instructions, Addendum to First Will, and "True Last Will and Testament" with Codicil, December 2
- The So-Called Prophecy ('Autograph" for Hiram O'Bannon), December 2
- John Brown's Prison Bible: Selected Texts
- Part III. Antislavery and Proslavery Interviews
- Friday, October 21. "A Visit to the Prisoners in Charlestown" Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, 24 Oct. 1859, 1.
- Friday, October 21. "Interview with Capt. Brown" Reprinted from the Spirit of Jefferson [Charlestown, Va.], in Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, 24 Oct. 1859, 1.
- Friday, October 21. An Interview Questionnaire Independent Democrat [Charlestown, Va.], 22 Nov. 1859
- Wednesday, October 26. "The Harper's Ferry Outbreak," New York Herald, 27 Oct. 1859, 3.
- Wednesday, October 26. "Old Browns Opinion of the Herald." "The Harper's Ferry Outbreak," New York Herald, 27 Oct. 1859, 3.
- Sunday, October 30. "Visit of the Military to Old Brown." New York Herald, 31 Oct. 1859, 1.
- Tuesday, November 1. "Brown in Jail." "Public Feeling-Sentence of Brown-State of the Prisoner," New York Tribune, 5 Nov. 1859, 5.
- Wednesday, November 2. "Interviews with Old Brown." "A Visit to Charlestown," New York Times, 7 Nov. 1859, 4, in The Boston Traveller.
- Thursday, November 3. "Brown and His Friends." "John Brown's Invasion" New York Tribune, 7 Nov. 1859, 6.
- Friday, November 4. "About Brown." "John Browns Invasion," New York Tribune, 9 Nov. 1859, 5.
- Friday, November 4. "What Browns Plan Really Was." "John Brown's Invasion," New York Tribune, 9 Nov. 1859, 5.
- Friday, November 4. "Visit to Old Brown." New York Herald, 10 Nov. 1859, 5.
- Monday, November 7. "Appearance of the Prisoners." "Our Charlestown Correspondence," New York Herald, 10 Nov. 1859, 5.
- Wednesday, November 9. "Brown and His Place of Confinement." "The Trials at Charlestown," New York Tribune, 12 Nov. 1859, 6.
- Monday, November 21. "The Prisoners." "John Brown's Invasion," New York Tribune, 24 Nov. 1859, 6.
- Tuesday, November 22. "Interview with Capt. Brown." "Charlestown Intelligence (Nov. 22)," Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, 23 Nov. 1859, 1.
- Tuesday, November 22. "What Brown Has Accomplished. "John Browns Invasion," New York Tribune, 25 Nov. 1859, 5.
- Wednesday, November 23. "Browns Interview with a Minister." "Affairs at Charlestown. Correspondence of the Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser," New York Herald, 1 Dec. 1859, 10.
- Sunday, November 27. "Browns Condition." "John Brown's Invasion," New York Tribune, 30 Nov. 1859, 6.
- Monday, November 28. "A Visit to the Prisoners." "From Charlestown," New York Tribune, 30 Nov. 1859, 6.
- Monday, November 28. "The Place of Execution." "John Brown's Invasion. Correspondence of the N.Y. Tribune," 1 Dec. 1859, 6.
- Tuesday, November 29. "Very Latest." "Special Dispatch to the N.Y. Tribune," New York Tribune, 30 Nov. 1859, 5.
- Part IV. Reminiscences of John Brown in Jail
- 1. "The Cause I Love So Much": The Account of a Quaker Visitor (1859)
- 2. "He Died Game": The Final Assessment of the Tribune's Undercover Journalist (1859)
- 3. "A Man of One Idea": A Proslavery Doctor's Remembrance (1860)
- 4. "His Fortitude Was Sublime": His Lawyer's Recollections (1867)
- 5. "The Pre-Present of the Great Idea": A Virginia Unionist's Reappraisal (1868)
- 6. "A Very Able Man": Reminiscence of a Virginia Congressman (1883)
- 7. "The End Cometh": Reminiscence of a Kansas Associate (1887)
- 8. "It Will Go Down in Blood and Carnage": Recollections of an Old Journalist (ca. 1889)
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
