Robert Bray Copyright (c) 2012 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray Recent documents in Robert Bray en-us Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:13:20 PST 3600 Harold Sinclair's Bloomington: Ever(y)to(w)n http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/35 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/35 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:04:27 PDT Robert Bray Frederick Goddard Tuckerman http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/34 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/34 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:32:11 PDT Robert Bray Beating the Devil: Life and Art in Peter Cartwright's Autobiography http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/33 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/33 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:57:14 PDT Robert Bray Foreshortened Lives: Review Essay http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/32 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/32 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:42:24 PDT Robert Bray Mark Twain Biography: Entering a New Phase http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/31 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/31 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:22:21 PDT Robert Bray Interpretation, Criticism, and Poetic Structure http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/30 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/30 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:19:15 PDT Robert Bray Abraham Lincoln & the Colony on Ile-a-Vache http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/29 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/29 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:26:08 PST Just after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect (1 Jan 1863) Abraham Lincoln signed a contract with two New York capitalists to transport 500 newly-freed ex-slaves to Ile-a-Vache, Haiti, where they would, under company supervision, found and maintain a colony. From the start, little went right. Failure was due largely to mismanagement and chicanery on the part of the company. The emigrants lived (and died) miserably on Ile-a-Vache for nearly a year, until they were returned to the U. S. on a government transport ship in March, 1864. The debacle seems to have cured Lincoln of his fascination with colonization.

]]> Robert Bray Abraham Lincoln The Cartwright-Lincoln Acquaintance http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/28 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/28 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:41:40 PST Robert Bray The Mysical Landscape: Francis Grierson's <em>The Valley of Shadows</em> http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/27 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/27 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:03:39 PST Robert Bray What's Left to be Rediscovered? http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/26 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/26 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:45:54 PST Robert Bray The Road Down from Spoon River http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/25 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/25 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:31:35 PST Robert Bray Illinois History Camp-Meeting Revivalism and the Idea of Western Community http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/24 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/24 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:23:38 PST Robert Bray From New England to the Old Northwest: The American Odyssey of the Jeremiah Greenman Family http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/23 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/23 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:05:14 PST Robert Bray et al. Robert Herrick: A Chicago Trio http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/22 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/22 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:56:16 PST Robert Bray The Chicago Novel http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/21 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/21 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:59:29 PST Robert Bray Lincoln's in Town (a play) http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/20 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/20 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:01:00 PST The play was produced in Bloomington, Illinois, February 13-15, 2009, at the Bloomington Performing Arts Center as part of the celebration of the bicentenary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.

]]> Robert Bray et al. Reading with Lincoln http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/19 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/19 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:53:14 PST Robert Bray Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/18 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/18 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:50:36 PST Robert Bray A Reader's Guide to Illinois Literature http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/17 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/17 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:48:05 PST Robert Bray Rediscoveries, Literature and Place in Illinois http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/16 http://works.bepress.com/robert_bray/16 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:42:58 PST Robert Bray