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050 00 $aE540.N3$bK56 2013
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100 1 $aKing, William S.
245 10 $aTo raise up a nation :$bJohn Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the making of a free country /$cWilliam S. King.
264 1 $aYardley, Pennsylvania :$bWestholme,$c[2013]
300 $axiv, 679 pages ;$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 642-654) and index.
505 00 $tLife and times --$tBleeding Kansas --$tRaising an army of one hundred volunteers --$tCarrying the war into Africa --$tAn American Spartacus --$tA setting possessed of imposing grandeur --$tThe battle at Harper's Ferry --$tYear of meteors --$t1860 --$tTerrible swift sword --$tHis truth is marching on --$tBuffeted by sleet and by storm --$tLincoln's emancipation --$tMen of color, to arms! --$tBattles for liberty, battles for Union --$tWar for the total expiation of slavery --$tOne more river to cross --$tEpilogue.
520 $aWilliam S. King narrates the coming of the Civil War, the war itself, and the emancipation process, through the intertwined lives of John Brown and Frederick Douglass.
520 $a"Drawing on decades of research, and demonstrating remarkable command of a great range of primary sources, William S. King has written an important history of African Americans' own contributions and points of crossracial cooperation to end slavery in America. Beginning with the civil war along the border of Kansas and Missouri, the author traces the remarkable life of John Brown and the personal support for his ideas from elite New England businessmen, intellectuals such as Emerson and Thoreau, and African Americans, including his confidant, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman. Throughout, King links events that contributed to the growing antipathy in the North toward slavery and the South's concerns for its future, including Nat Turner's insurrection, the Amistad affair, the Fugitive Slave law, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott decision. The author also effectively describes the debate within the African American community as to whether the U.S. Constitution was colorblind or if emigration was the right course for the future of blacks in America. Following Brown's execution after the failed raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859, King shows how Brown's vision that only a clash of arms would eradicate slavery was set into motion after the election of Abraham Lincoln. Once the Civil War erupted on the heels of Brown's raid, the author relates how black leaders, white legislators, and military officers vigorously discussed the use of black manpower for the Union effort as well as plans for the liberation of the "veritable Africa" within the southern United States. Following the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1863, recruitment of black soldiers increased and by war's end they made up nearly ten percent of the Union army, and contributed to many important victories. To Raise Up a Nation: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the Making of a Free Country is a sweeping history that explains how the destruction of American slavery was not directed primarily from the counsels of local and national government and military men, but rather through the grassroots efforts of extraordinary men and women. As King notes, the Lincoln administration ultimately armed black Americans, as John Brown had attempted to do, and their role was a vital part in the defeat of slavery." -- Publisher's description.
600 10 $aDouglass, Frederick,$d1818-1895$xInfluence.
600 10 $aBrown, John,$d1800-1859$xInfluence.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xAfrican Americans.
650 0 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States.
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