The Oracle and the Curse : A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War /
"Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper's Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown's shaped Am...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
2013
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