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ISBN: 978-0-9899780-8-8
Pages: 364
Dimensions: 5.75 x 8.75 inches

Let It Demonstrate; Bowie Knife Potter: Godfather of the Phantoms

Format: Soft Cover

$19.95

Overview

John Fox Potter (1817-1899) was educated in the east and carved his idyllic homestead, โ€œLake Side Farm,โ€ from the Wisconsin wilderness. A community leader he was at the founding of the Republican party, and the first Republican, an abolitionist โ€“ย Black Republican, to serve Wisconsin in the 1st Congressional District, a longtime Democratic stronghold. On the eve of the Civil War he battled the Southern โ€œfire-eatersโ€ on the floor of Congress with his oratory and his fists. Potter โ€œscalpedโ€ a fellow congressman; leveled a future Supreme Court jurist; and when challenged, under thecode duello, for insisting that fellow abolitionistโ€™s views be heard โ€“ his choice of weapons was the infamous, and barbarous, โ€œbowie knife.โ€ He was a man of action, and a man of introspection. He hosted progressive thinkers at his rural lakeside retreat; including Thomas Wentworth Higginson a radical clergyman who authored the vows attacking the concept of coverture for feminist Lucy Stoneโ€™s wedding, and carried on a โ€œcorrespondenceโ€ with Emily Dickinson for decades. After a brief, but tumultuous, service as a Consul to the Canadas, he retired to his โ€œLake Side Farmโ€ and hosted a group of social and political thinkers and activists from Milwaukee โ€“ The Phantom Club.

Let It Demonstrate; Bowie Knife Potter: Godfather of the Phantoms

$19.95

Overview

John Fox Potter (1817-1899) was educated in the east and carved his idyllic homestead, โ€œLake Side Farm,โ€ from the Wisconsin wilderness. A community leader he was at the founding of the Republican party, and the first Republican, an abolitionist โ€“ย Black Republican, to serve Wisconsin in the 1st Congressional District, a longtime Democratic stronghold. On the eve of the Civil War he battled the Southern โ€œfire-eatersโ€ on the floor of Congress with his oratory and his fists. Potter โ€œscalpedโ€ a fellow congressman; leveled a future Supreme Court jurist; and when challenged, under thecode duello, for insisting that fellow abolitionistโ€™s views be heard โ€“ his choice of weapons was the infamous, and barbarous, โ€œbowie knife.โ€ He was a man of action, and a man of introspection. He hosted progressive thinkers at his rural lakeside retreat; including Thomas Wentworth Higginson a radical clergyman who authored the vows attacking the concept of coverture for feminist Lucy Stoneโ€™s wedding, and carried on a โ€œcorrespondenceโ€ with Emily Dickinson for decades. After a brief, but tumultuous, service as a Consul to the Canadas, he retired to his โ€œLake Side Farmโ€ and hosted a group of social and political thinkers and activists from Milwaukee โ€“ The Phantom Club.

Details

Format: Soft Cover
ISBN: 978-0-9899780-8-8
Pages: 364
Dimensions: 5.75 x 8.75 inches