tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20136268.post8560494898253889618..comments2024-02-08T23:48:48.397-05:00Comments on <p><big>JOHN BROWN TODAY</big></p><p><i><center>A Biographer's Blog</center></i></p>: Louis A. DeCaro, Jr. . .http://www.blogger.com/profile/10895195726778019518noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20136268.post-1068437042064810962013-01-10T10:49:06.433-05:002013-01-10T10:49:06.433-05:00Nice to hear from you James. Could not agree more...Nice to hear from you James. Could not agree more. Sometimes there is more clarity and perspecuity in the approach of grassroots students and scholars than among the "experts," as you put it, "with access to far more education and resources." We all have some presuppositional "varnish" I suppose, so perhaps my arguments do not represent unvarnished history. But while total objectivity may be the carrot on a stick, certainly being honest and doing one's homework goes a long way!Louis A. DeCaro, Jr. . .https://www.blogger.com/profile/10895195726778019518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20136268.post-20412952010389882492013-01-10T06:47:32.449-05:002013-01-10T06:47:32.449-05:00Dr. de Caro,
Thanks for your insight! I have wait...Dr. de Caro,<br /><br />Thanks for your insight! I have waited with anticipation for this series of episodes on American Experience. I wasn't sure how much time they would give Brown, but I must say I expected the typical "conventional wisdom" of The Old Man as a madman and religious extremist.<br /><br />As soon as Gilpin said "deep and dark relationship with God", I knew where we were headed. If a dyed in the wool Texan raised on the myth of "The War of Northern Agression" and "The Lost Cause" like me can open his mind enough to see that Brown was the only American of his age who truly possessed the courage of his convictions, I don't understand why these so-called "scholars" with access to far more education and resources than I have cannot do likewise.<br /><br />I look forward to you shining the lamp of unvarnished history on the remaining episodes of "The Abolitionists".JamesHofsisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14648342336296998839noreply@blogger.com