John Brown and Good Lord Bird | Based on a True Story

Good Lord Bird is an awesome show, and I’m surprised it isn’t getting a lot of attention. While no one can deny John Brown was fighting for a noble cause, he absolutely did so ignobly. The man committed atrocities in abolition’s name, but in his long afterlife, much of the public has expunged the brutality and foolishness of his actions from their minds, forming a myth. Brown is more of a symbol than a flesh and blood historical character, and that is precisely what he would’ve wanted.
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*Secondary sources:*
Durwood Ball, _Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861_ (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001). https://amzn.to/2m06NLB

Stanley Harrold, _Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War_ (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010). https://amzn.to/2xbEKSp

David M. Potter, _The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861,_ Reprint (1976; New York: Harper Perennial, 2011). https://amzn.to/3aeYy5q

Reggie Ugwu, “How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’?” _New York Times,_ 17 November 2020.

https://slate.com/culture/2020/10/good-lord-bird-showtime-accuracy-fact-fiction.html

https://slate.com/culture/2020/10/good-lord-bird-frederick-douglass-historical-accuracy.html

*Primary sources:*
Brown’s last speech: https://ap.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/content-images/05508.051p1.jpg

Sources on the trial and investigation of Brown: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/john-browns-body-lesson-primary-sources

Brown’s final note: https://www.marxists.org/archive/brown-john/1859/last-note.htm

Emerson’s speech: https://www.bartleby.com/90/1111.html

Thoreau _Plea for Cpt. John Brown:_ https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2567

Etymology of “peculiar institution”: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2010-November/104924.html

Cornerstone speech: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech
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Wiki: John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist leader. A religious man more than anything else,[1][2] Brown believed he was "an instrument of God",[3]:248 raised up to strike the death blow to American slavery, a "sacred obligation".[4][3]:189 Brown felt that violence was necessary to end American slavery, since peaceful efforts had failed.[5][4][3] Brown said repeatedly that in working to free the enslaved he was following the Golden Rule,[6][7] as well as the U.S. Declaration of Independence which stated "all men are created equal".[
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