Brown believed that the achievement of liberty had to be bought with the blood of those preventing enslaved Americans from attaining it. ... " John Brown was such a central topic in many works of literature during this time period because he represents to the abolitionist movement what the American Renaissance symbolized for these authors. ... In some ways, Brown was the ideas of the American Renaissance in human form. ... The American Renaissance was largely humanistic and romantic, taking into account the value of a person's life. ... As the Renaissance also took many of its value...

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