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	Amazon.com: John Brown's Body: Books: Stephen Benet
		John Brown's Body will not serve as a history of the Civil War--you need to know the outlines of the history before you dive in--but I know of no where else in literature you can turn to receive a fuller impression of what the period was _about._
		John Brown's Body is the closest thing we have to an epic poem "about" America.
		When Stephen Vincent Benet finished John Brown's Body in 1928 and the critics awaited its issue, the South was most anxious and skeptical that they would be portrayed honestly.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/092958726X?v=glance (1457 words)

	Ninteenth Centruy Studies Association
		John Brown as subject, rather than object, was the focus of the session's last paper, Seizing the Sword of Revolution: John Brown and the Body of George Washington.
		Elisabeth Brown (U of Southern California) moderated a panel organized around the theme of John Brown's Bodies: The Sites and Citation of Political Bodies and the Body Politic.
		In his paper entitled "Embalmed in a thousand songs and stories": John Brown's Body and Cultural Representaiton, Duncan Faherty (CUNY, the Graduate Center) explored the cultural desire to reimagine John Brown through representations of his body, as opposed to his words or deeds.
	www.msu.edu /~floyd/ncsa/news1998.htm (6929 words)

	John Brown’s Body: An American Reggae Band
		John Brown’s Body is a band that does not seek the commercial sound that is radiating from new reggae bands both in Jamaica, and from the U.S. The focus is not on the more popular pop sounding reggae, instead, the focus is on the roots sound.
		Within the Shanachie Record label, John Brown’s Body is amongst such reggae greats as Alpha Blondie, Black Uhuru, Dennis Brown, Culture, Gregory Isaacs, Freddy McGregor, Bunny Wailer, and Yellowman to name a few.
		The name, John Brown’s Body pays homage to John Brown, the freedom fighter and abolitionist of the 1850’s.
	debate.uvm.edu /dreadlibrary/pettrone.html (6929 words)

	The Underground Railroad Site - John Brown
		Stephen Vincent Benét wrote "John Brown's Body," an epic about the Civil War.
		John Brown was an American abolitionist, born in Connecticut and raised in Ohio.
		At the end of Book One, John Brown appears in court, on trial for the crime of treason - "an enemy of Virginia, an enemy of the Union, a foe of the human race." In this excerpt, Benét reprints Brown's speech to the court.
	education.ucdavis.edu /NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/Brown.htm (190 words)

	The History of John Brown
		After John Brown was hung in Charleston on Dec.2, 1859, his body was returned to the Adirondacks to be interred on the Brown farm according to his wishes.
		John Brown soon realized the impossibility of his task and abandoned "Timbucto" to follow the abolitionist movement in Kansas where five of his sons were already stationed.
		John Brown was born on May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut.
	afgen.com /john_brown1.html (427 words)

	John Brown Farm, North Elba, New York - New York History Net
		The tombstone of Brown's ancestor, also named Capt. John Brown was inscribed with his name, as well as those of his sons who died at Harper's Ferry.
		After his execution, Brown's wife returned his body to the farm for burial.
		John Brown Farm, North Elba, New York - New York History Net
	www.nyhistory.com /gerritsmith/nelba.htm (461 words)

	John Brown's Body (c. 1860) / The President's Proclamation (c. 1863)
		John Brown died on a scaffold for the slave,
		On Sunday, 16 Oct 1859, John Brown led fourteen whites and four blacks in a raid on the Harper's Ferry, VA, arsenal and rifle factory, hoping to spark a slave rebellion.
		Early in the Civil War, a regiment stationed in Boston [Second Battalion of Massachusetts Infantry at Fort Warren] included a soldier named John Brown.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/parton/2/jbrown.html (917 words)

	John Brown and Kent
		In any case, John Brown believed that real estate in Franklin Mills was going to be extremely valuable, and that by investing early, he would end up a wealthy man. Brown borrowed large sums of money, bought over 95 acres of land, and waited for his investment to pay off.
		When Union soldiers marched into battle during that war, many of them sang about John Brown, a man who spent much of his life in what is now called Kent.
		While John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry failed, it did force the nation to pay attention to the slavery issue.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Park/9580/brown.html (796 words)

	John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Union soldiers marched into battle singing "John Brown's Body," and church congregations sang Julia Ward Howe's new words to the song The Battle Hymn of the Republic: "As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free".
		John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was a militant American abolitionist, and one of the first white abolitionists to advocate, and to practice, guerilla warfare as a means to the abolition of slavery.
		John Brown is buried on the John Brown Farm in North Elba, New York, south of Lake Placid, near Saranac Lake.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist) (4915 words)

	John Brown
		And yet, when she received such treatment from John Brown, she positively seemed to enjoy it....
		Brown" in his letters to the Queen, and the French Government took particular pains to provide for his comfort during the visits of the English Sovereign to France.
		The Prince's gillie had now become the Queen's personal attendant -- a body servant from whom she was never parted, who accompanied her on her drives, waited on her during the day, and slept in a neighbouring chamber at night.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/mbrown/men/brown_bio.html (449 words)

	MSN Encarta - Medicine
		The event that dominated 17th-century medicine and marked the beginning of a new epoch in medical science was the discovery of how the blood circulates in the body by the English physician and anatomist William Harvey.
		Physicians began to devote greater attention to preventing disease and keeping patients healthy into advanced age.
		The English physician Francis Glisson advanced the knowledge of the anatomy of the liver, described the nutritional disorder rickets (sometimes called Glisson's disease), and was the first to prove that muscles contract when activity is performed.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567832_3/Medicine.html (449 words)

	The History of John Brown
		After John Brown was hung in Charleston on Dec.2, 1859, his body was returned to the Adirondacks to be interred on the Brown farm according to his wishes.
		John Brown soon realized the impossibility of his task and abandoned "Timbucto" to follow the abolitionist movement in Kansas where five of his sons were already stationed.
		John Brown was born on May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut.
	afgen.com /john_brown1.html (427 words)

	John Brown's Body - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"John Brown's Body" is a famous Union marching song of the American Civil War.
		It was a tribute to the abolitionist acts of John Brown.
		There is also revisionist evidence that this song was originally created by a group of Union soldiers (with verses different than this), mocking their commander who shared the name "John Brown", as presented by Sarah Vowell on This American Life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Brown's_Body (294 words)

	John A.T. Robinson Study Archive @ PreteristArchive.CD
		To this end, John A.T. Robinson's 1952 classic The Body: a study in Pauline theology is a valuable contribution to the literature surrounding Transmillennial® thought as much as his book, Redating the New Testament.
		John Robinson's echoes were heard in me every time I spoke and certainly every time I wrote.
		So while the bishops were debating, John and I probed the gospel tradition and I learned from his incisive mind.
	www.preteristarchive.com /StudyArchive/r/robinson-john-at_redating.html (294 words)

	Old John Brown
		John Brown now prepared for his final effort, for the enterprise he had espoused and the sacrifice he had sworn to make for it were to be completed by his death.
		John Brown is not dead; he is more alive than ever he was.' As that same year the Northern States gird themselves for the great Presidential contest, determined that at length a thorough Abolitionist named Abraham Lincoln shall tenant the White House, it is evident that John Brown's soul is marching on.
		The Bible was the final court of appeal in the Brown family, and the verdict of that court was that they two—the slave and the guest—were brothers, so henceforth the instinct of fraternal loyalty drew young John to 'swear eternal war with slavery.' That vow, never recanted or forgotten, became the text of his life.
	www.pos1.info /o/ojbrn.htm (11358 words)

	John Brown Research
		John Copeland was buried near the site of his execution on December 16, two weeks after John Brown, in Charlestown, Virginia, despite requests from the mayor of Oberlin to claim his body to be buried.
		John Brown's final speech to the court, upon hearing his death sentence in November, 1859, is among the classic documents of history, defining the reasons for fighting -- and dying -- to end slavery by acknowledging the everyday sacrifices of the millions of enslaved as equal to his own execution.
		The role of Africans in America, slave and free, in John Brown's raid is conventionally described as passive, cowardly, or accidental, except for five men who were in his original small army of twenty-two.
	www.alliesforfreedom.org /allies.htm (11358 words)

	"John Brown's Body" Song Home Page
		John Brown's body may be a moulderin' in the grave, but his soul goes marching on, especially on the World Wide Web.
		This site offers Civil War historians and other interested parties a chance to get more information on John Brown and the song which brought him back from the dead.
		His work on John Brown and his song has won critical acclaim from more than a few Civil War scholars across the country, as the endorsements section shows.
	www.johnbrownsbody.net (11358 words)

	Petition of Sundry Citizens against Thomas A. BROWN
		BROWN, clk.: The petition of Thomas A. BROWN and John
		Petition of Sundry Citizens against Thomas A. Petition of Sundry Citizens against Thomas A. and John BROWN building a
		Your petitioners Confidently state that the Object of said John and Thomas is to impose a toll
	www.roanetnheritage.com /research/petition/p10.htm (321 words)

	The New York Review of Books: SHOOT-OUT
		I have a great deal more I could say, especially about the fact that one cannot talk about John Brown and Harpers Ferry without also discussing the violent and racist society in which he lived—a society so rife with moral and ideological contradictions that revolutionaries like Brown were bound to appear.
		The morality of John Brown is not in itself a very interesting question; I quite agree.
		That was some shoot-out you and Louis Ruchames had over John Brown in The New York Review of Books ["An Exchange On John Brown," February 11].
	www.nybooks.com /articles/10597 (321 words)

	John Brown's Body
		For 10 years now, John Brown's Body has maintained its commitment to touring, recording, and doing all it can to survive in the musical world.
		Our own Tommy Benedetti will be on the upcoming Club D'Elf album, featuring John Medeski, Mike Rivard, DJ Mr Rourke, and Duke Levine.
		We expect to make big strides forward in that journey this year, starting with our upcoming shows with Slightly Stoopid and on the Dave Matthews and Friends Cruise.
	www.johnbrownsbody.com (1759 words)

	Inspector Gadget - Cincinnati.Com
		John’s rebuilt body is fitted with everything from a cigarette lighter in his thumb to retractable limbs that can turn him into a giant.
		The car is as loaded with gadgets as the inspector himself (Matthew Broderick), former security guard John Brown, who is blown to bits defending the lovely research scientist Brenda Bradford (Joely Fisher).
		She is so grateful she uses John as the test subject for her invention, an implanted chip that allows a human brain to operate a range of mechanical devices.
	www.cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/mcgurk/inspectorgadget.html (323 words)

	John Brown's Body
		John Brown's Body exploded onto the scene in 1996 releasing the first CD on their very own I-Town Records, "All Time." After putting out two subsequent CDs on the Shanachie label, "Among Them" (1998) and "This Day" the roots trilogy had been completed.
		From the Roots to the future riddim while remaining ever Present, John Brown's Body is still in motion.
		Summer 2002 John Brown's Body is booked to appear at many of the biggest music festivals including High Sierra, Farmapalooza, Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, and Island Fest.
	www.reggaemovement.com /artists/johnbrownsbody.htm (323 words)

	John Brown (fugitive slave) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		'John Brown' [1810]-[1876] also known by his slave name of 'Fed',was born into [slavery]in [Virginia] and was moved at age ten to [North Carolina] where he was separated from his mother.
		Brown's body was exhumed by for a pro slavery act, and has never been seen again.
		Brown married a local woman and remained in London until his death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Brown_%28fugitive_slave%29 (234 words)

	SCOTWISE
		These verses are incredibly powerful, for they speak to us as individuals, and as universal body of believers, that we too must be in the ministry of change, a ministry that changes the lives of people.
		You have already been married five times, and the man you are now living with isn't your husband." - John 4:16.
		It is the principle that we must use as an extension of Christ Himself, as we minister to the lost.
	scotwise.blogspot.com (3051 words)

	John Brown's Ghost - Suite101.com
		John Brown’s body was taken to a family farm in Essex County, New York.
		John Brown assembled as many weapons as he could and left for Kansas.
		John Brown holed up in the engine house with his remaining men.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/11531/82436 (3051 words)

	June 19th
		The mean wickedness and tyranny of King John had raised nearly the whole body of his subjects in rebellion against him, and it at length appeared that he had scarcely any support but that which he derived from a band of foreign mercenaries.
		One Andrew Lundie informed John Knox that, having occasion to be in Edinburgh on business at that time.
		Appalled at the position in which he found himself, he agreed to meet the army of the barons under their elected general, FitzWalter, on Runnymead, by the Thames, near Windsor, in order to come to a pacification with them.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/june/19.htm (3051 words)

	John Brown's Body
		Over 9 years John Brown’s Body has established itself as the premier American reggae band, through constant touring, four popular studio albums, and one live release with a reggae legend.
		Kevin Kinsella, lead singer and chief songwriter of the group, formed John Brown’s Body out of the ashes of Tribulations a year later.
		Within a few months, Shanachie signed John Brown’s Body to a record deal, and re-released AMONG THEM (1999).
	www.johnbrownsbody.com /bios.html (3051 words)

	John Brown and Kent
		In any case, John Brown believed that real estate in Franklin Mills was going to be extremely valuable, and that by investing early, he would end up a wealthy man. Brown borrowed large sums of money, bought over 95 acres of land, and waited for his investment to pay off.
		John was born in Torrington, Connecticut on May 9, 1800 and moved to the Western Reserve with his family in 1805.
		Brown began using violence to reach his goal, which led him to the infamous slaughter of pro-slavery advocates at Osawatomie.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Park/9580/brown.html (796 words)

	People and Peoples (A-C)
		He wrote the poem John Brown's Body which deals with the American Civil War.
		John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton was a British historian.
		Sir Henry Bessemer was born in 1813, dying in 1898.
	www.ii.uj.edu.pl /~artur/enc/C1.htm (796 words)

	John Brown University - New Titles
		Pope John Paul II's Theology of the body in simple language.
		Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
		Alighieri, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, and Hannah
	www.jbu.edu /library/new_titles/10-04.asp (796 words)

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