Noted historian Colin G. Calloway details the political and legal battles and the bloody fighting on both sides for possession of the Shawnees? More than defending their territory, the Shawnees went to war to preserve a way of life and their own deeply held vision of what their nation should be. Author : H. From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln--two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation's gravest sin.
John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in , Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery.
Brown's violence pointed ambitious Illinois lawyer and former officeholder Abraham Lincoln toward a different solution to slavery: politics. Lincoln spoke cautiously and dreamed big, plotting his path back to Washington and perhaps to the White House. Yet his caution could not protect him from the vortex of violence Brown had set in motion. After Brown's arrest, his righteous dignity on the way to the gallows led many in the North to see him as a martyr to liberty.
Southerners responded with anger and horror to a terrorist being made into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle between the opposing voices of the fractured nation and won election as president.
But the time for moderation had passed, and Lincoln's fervent belief that democracy could resolve its moral crises peacefully faced its ultimate test. The Zealot and the Emancipator is the thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.
Tecumseh and the Prophet Peter Cozzens. The Warrior and the Prophet Peter Cozzens. The Shawnee Prophet R. David Edmunds. Tecumseh and the Shawnee prophet, by E. Eggleston and L. Seelye Edward Eggleston.
Tecumseh John Sugden. Tecumseh's Last Stand John Sugden. The Gods of Prophetstown Adam Jortner. The Shawnee Jerry E. David Edmunds. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics.
Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership by R. David Edmunds is both a biography of the titular Shawnee war chief Tecumseh and an overview of the political movement he started in the early 19th century.
Along with his younger brother Tenskwatawa also referred to as the Prophet , Tecumseh attempted to forge a pan-tribal alliance of Indigenous peoples to counter the increasing cultural and territorial domination of the United States as it expanded westward across North America. Allied with the British in Canada during the War of , Tecumseh led a diverse cross-section of Native American tribes in direct confrontation with the American government.
As Edmunds notes, primary evidence regarding Tecumseh and the Shawnee tribe is either scarce or marked by fabulous exaggeration. Find more at www. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The Shawnees 2. A Culture Under Siege 4. Red Messiah 5. To Tippecanoe 7. Red Ascendancy 8. Death on the Thames 9. Previous editions.
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