The Souls of an Ex-White Man: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Biography of John Brown.

Autor: Chandler, Nahum D.
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Zdroj: CR: The New Centennial Review; Spring2003, Vol. 3 Issue 1, p179-195, 17p
Abstrakt: The article presents information on the biography "John Brown," written by W. E. B. Du Bois. Brown was a "White" man who died to achieve the freedom of the Negro. He will always lead a double life within the space of his second death, once as a friend of the Negro in life, and again as their martyr in death. The telling of the story of his friendship with the Negro is also the story of the death of a "White" man. And the telling of the story of his martyrdom of John Brown is also the story of his life as icon of the possibility of a new beginning.
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