His Brothers' Keeper
John Brown, Moral Stewardship and Interracial Abolitionism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11191977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W Caleb Mcdaniel (McDaniel College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-52 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavery and Abolition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0144039x.2011.538197 |
| OpenAlex | W2065697628 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Recent biographies of abolitionist John Brown emphasise his uniqueness and cast him as an anomalous figure in the anti-slavery movement. This article, however, makes the case for Brown's representativeness by connecting his career to his formative years in north-eastern Ohio, a geographical and cultural context that shaped Brown's lifelong image of himself as an adviser and manager of wilderness communities. That self-image made Brown similar to white ‘moral stewards’ in many reform movements. Even Brown's interracial relationships, though difficult to interpret because of sparse documentary evidence, were shaped partly by the culture of moral stewardship in which Brown's career began
Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Representativeness heuristic · Scholarship · Sociology · Stewardship (theology · Wilderness · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Ecology · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |