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title	:	The Truman Nelson Reader
author	:	Nelson, Truman John.; Schafer, William John
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870236474
print isbn13	:	9780870236471
ebook isbn13	:	9780585247229
language	:	English
subject	Nelson, Truman John, --1912- --Biography.
publication date	:	1989
lcc	:	PS3564.E477A6 1989eb
ddc	:	809.93592
subject	:	Nelson, Truman John, --1912- --Biography.

Page iii The Truman Nelson Reader EditedbyWilliamJ. Schafer

Page iv Copyright 1989 by Truman Nelson All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 8814701 ISBN 0870236474 (cloth); 6482 (pbk.) Designed by Patricia Douglas Crowder Set in Linotron 202 Aster Printed by Thomson-Shore and bound by John Dekker & Sons LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Nelson, Truman John, 1912 The Truman Nelson reader / edited by William J. Schafer. p. cm. Bibliography: p. ISBN 0870236474 (alk. paper). ISBN 0870236482 (pbk.: alk. paper) I. Schafer, William John, 1937- . II. Title. PS3564.E477A6 1989 8814701 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.

Page v CONTENTS Introduction vii Fiction: The Themes 1 The Sin of the Prophet 3 The Passion by the Brook 62 The Surveyor 101 God in Love 142 Essays: The Variations 153 On Creating Revolutionary Art and Going Out of Print 160 The Liberator 177 Thoreau and John Brown 195 W.E.B. Du Bois as a Prophet 216 The Torture of Mothers 230 No Rights, No Duties 239 The Conscience of the North 254 Interview 271 Truman Nelson: An Interview with Shaun A. McNiff 273 Bibliography, compiled by Garrison Nelson 293 Acknowledgments 301

Page vii INTRODUCTION I'vealmostmadeupmymindtocastmylotwiththeNegroes. They'retheonesthatarelivinganinchatatime. They'renotworriedaboutanothertencentsadaybutabouthowtogetoutfromunderthelash. They'removing, rebelling, runningawayfromtheirbondage, flauntingtheirmiseryinthefacesofthesmug. Wecallourfactoryworkershands. TheNegroeshavenohands, theyareinchains. Ourhandscanfight, carryagun, voteeveniftheywantto. I'vegotmorerespectfortheblackpeople. Unfortunatelyitiswrittenontheironleafoffatethatprogresscomesonlybyrevolutions, notgradually, andcomesonlyingreatconvulsionsandnotfrompatientplodding. Ifyouwantaspottostandon, tomovetheearth, findthemanwhoisbeingcrucified, whoisonthecrosstoday. Theodore Parker, to George Ripley, in The Passion by the Brook During the 1950s, in the deep double shadow of McCarthyism and the Cold War, Truman Nelson wrote three historical novels reaching a century back to a great decade of climactic controversy and action, the 1850s. This epoch, called by Nelson's mentor F.O. Matthiessen the "American Renaissance," was the zenith of nineteenthcentury American radicalism, focused in the fight for abolition. Nelson's novelsTheSinoftheProphet (1952), ThePassionbytheBrook (1953), and TheSurveyor (1960)sketch the development of radical consciousness from the communitarian experiment of Brook Farm, through The-

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