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CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE John Brown in Nineteenth-Century America 1 1 SOME DEFINITE PLAN The Early Life of John Brown 9 2 THE FINAL ARBITER Bleeding Kansas and the Creation of the Old Hero 17 3 NOT BURIED BUT PLANTED Cultivating the Legend of John Brown 32 4 A SAINT IN SUSPENSE Competing Visions of John Brown 55 5 DISCRIMINATION AND DESTINY John Brown and the NAACP 79 6 THE SOUL RESTS Stephen Vincent Benét and the Silencing of John Brown’s Body 106 7 THE FUGITIVE IMAGINATION A John Brown for the Old South 120 8 REVISING KANSAS John Steuart Curry and the Fanaticism of John Brown 144 9 TOGETHER UNDER ARMS Jacob Lawrence Paints Black History 158 Epilogue CLIMAX AND HARBINGER A Life as a Common Cause 181 Notes 197 Bibliography 247 Index 265 ...

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