John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature

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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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Main Author:	Trodd, Zoe
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2015
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34170/

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