John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature
Before his execution in 1859, the radical abolitionist John Brown wrote a series of prison letters that – along with his death itself – helped to cement the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom. This article charts the adaptation of that aesthetic in antilynching protest literature durin...
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Cambridge University Press
2015
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34170/ |