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Our Fiery Trial : Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, and the Civil War Era
author
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Oates, Stephen B.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870233971
print isbn13
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9780870233975
ebook isbn13
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9780585139043
language
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English
subject
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Addresses, essays, lectures, Brown, John,--1800-1859--Addresses, essays, lectures, Turner, Nat,--1800?-1831--Addresses, essays, lectures, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Addresses, essays, lectures.
publication date
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1979
lcc
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E457.8.O18eb
ddc
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973.7
subject
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Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Addresses, essays, lectures, Brown, John,--1800-1859--Addresses, essays, lectures, Turner, Nat,--1800?-1831--Addresses, essays, lectures, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Addresses, essays, lectures.
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Our Fiery Trial
Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, And The Civil War Era
Stephen B. Oates
University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
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Copyright 1979 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 78-16286 ISBN 0-87023-397-1 Printed in the United States of America Designed by Mary Mendell
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Oates, Stephen B Our fiery trial. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1.Lincoln, Abraham, Pres. U.S., 18091865 Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Brown, John, 1800 1859Addresses, essays, lectures. 3.Turner,Nat, 1800?1831Addresses, essays, lectures. 4. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Title. E457.8 018 973.7 7816286
"Styron's War against the Blacks" first appeared under the title, "Styron and the BlacksAnother View," in The Nation 220 (May 1975). ''John Brown and His Judges" first appeared in Civil War History 17 (March 1971). "Modern Radicals and John Brown" first appeared under the title" 'In Thine Own Image': Modern Radicals and John Brown," in the South Atlantic Quarterly 73 (Autumn, 1974). Copyright 1974 by Duke University Press. "The Enigma of Stephen A. Douglas" first appeared under the title "The Little Giant Reconsidered," in Reviews in American History (December 1973). Reprinted with permission. "Ghost Riders in the Sky" first appeared in The Colorado Quarterly 23 (Summer 1974).
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For David D. Van Tassel
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Contents
Preface
vii
One. Styron's War against the Blacks
1
Two. God's Stone in the Pool of Slavery
9
Three. John Brown and His Judges
22
Four. Modern Radicals and John Brown
43
Five. The Enigma of Stephen A. Douglas
52
Six. Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation
61
Seven. The Long Shadow of Lincoln
86
Eight. Carl Sandburg's Lincoln
99
Nine. Ghost Riders in the Sky
112
Ten. Themes and Variations of a Civil War Trilogy
121
References
130
Index
144
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Preface
The studies gathered here focus on the Age of the Civil War and some of the leading personae in the tragedy of that conflictamong them, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Nat Turner, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Southern secessionists. On one level, this serves as a companion volume to my biographical trilogyThe Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion, To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown, and With Malice toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Several of the essays, in fact, grew out of the reading and research I did for the trilogy. Among other things, they examine some of the literary and historical controversies that surround the three men and their era, try to clarify my ideas about them and add new insights, and generally pursue topics I thought more appropriate for essays than for biographies.
"God's Stone in the Pool of Slavery," for example, analyzes Harpers Ferry in the context of Southern anxieties and apprehensions over slavery that had been growing since the beginning of the Republicand especially since Nat Turner's rebellion. The essay demonstrates that on one score John Brown proved himself a keenly perceptive man, for he correctly predicted the explosive impact his raid would have on Southern whites. For them, Harpers Ferry was no isolated outbreak of little historical import. It was instead an apocalyptic outgrowth of Northern antislavery agitation, an act of "outside provocation" that caused white Southerners to equate Brown-style revolutionary violence with Lincoln and the Republican party and that escalated sectional tensions over slavery to the breaking point. In this respect, Our Fiery Trial shows
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how symbolically significant Turner, Brown, and Lincoln were in Southern eyes, how profoundly interconnected they were in the whirlwind of events that spun the United States toward civil war, how inextricably bound up all three were in the haunting problem of slavery in their day.
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