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| Series Foreword | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Preface | ||
| Chronology | ||
| I | Africa and America | 1 |
| II | The Making of the Man | 4 |
| III | The Wanderjahre | 8 |
| IV | The Shepherd of the Sheep | 19 |
| V | The Vision of the Damned | 33 |
| VI | The Call of Kansas | 58 |
| VII | The Swamp of the Swan | 70 |
| VIII | The Great Plan | 98 |
| IX | The Black Phalanx | 117 |
| X | The Great Black Way | 137 |
| XI | The Blow | 155 |
| XII | The Riddle of the Sphinx | 172 |
| XIII | The Legacy of John Brown | 186 |
| Bibliography | 203 | |
| Related Documents | 205 | |
| Index | 217 |
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Kazuhiko Namiki
reviewed John Brown on February 23, 2017 John Brown
This is the definitive work on Brown. If you had to read only one book on the subject, this would be it.
Du Bois manages to do what no other biographer has done, and I've read about a dozen books on Brown. Du Buois manages to place the man in context. After all, there are a whole lot of John Browns out there, and it takes some doing to explain why this one is different. He starts back in the Revolutionary War, with Brown's parents, and follows him through his life and the deforming effect that 19th century American history had on him. Remember that Brown was born in 1800, so the War of 1812 happened when he was 12. 1816, the Year Without a Summer, hit when he was 16. The Panic of 1837 happened when he was 37. The labor unrests of the 1850s hit when he was in his 50s, and as it happened that was the final straw. Turns out you can only have your entire life destroyed so many times.
In a world without slavery, Brown would have been an farmer-businessman of great wealth and power, and we would probably remember him as an early figure in the labor movement. But the world came along and took everything away from him, again and again, until only abolitionism was left.
So the question, "Was John Brown crazy?" has been answered. He probably wasn't as sane at the end as when he started, but on the whole, he was a sane man in a crazy world.
Du Bois is the single most powerful writer I've come across since....Shakespeare, really. He's really that good. The words just leap out at you. The chapter on the Swamp of the Swan is one of the best-written things I've ever read, as is the last chapter, where he takes white supremacy apart to itty-bitty pieces. I mean, it's early 2017 and I live in America. I've read approximately one thousand takedowns of white supremacy in the last year. Du Bois's is the best. That's saying something.
I've been reading a lot of classics lately, and the guy's undoubtedly the best stylist I've run across. I plan to read a lot more by him, and I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up reading everything.
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