James Redpath, John Brown, and Abolitionist Advocacy of Slave Insurrection

James Redpath's advocacy of a slave insurrection marked a shift in the abolitionist movement away from its traditional commitment to nonviolence. Redpath, who was born in Scotland in 1833 and immigrated to the US in 1849, began to defend the idea of a slave revolt after touring the South in the...

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Published in:Civil War history 1991-12, Vol.37 (4), p.293-313
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American Civil War
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Insurrections, etc
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Slave insurrections
Slavery
Violence
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