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The Man and the Martyr:

2021
In “The Man and the Martyr: Abraham Lincoln in African American History and Memory”, James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton sketch the evolving evaluations of the sixteenth president by such diverse black persons as H. Ford Douglas, Frederick Douglass, John Rock, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Keckley, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B.
James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton
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The Cult of Martyrs [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Conflict Resolution, 2012
This article suggests a rational explanation for extreme voluntary sacrifice in situations in which the state of the world when the decision must be made is observable only by the agent. Such explanation is the cult of martyrs, heroes, and saints. This cult may get out of control and fuel fanaticism, or excessive sacrifice from the standpoint of the ...
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The Modern Martyr

Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, 1948
The proposition that all things, animate and inanimate, have a beginning, a development, and a conclusion has only partial validity in the opinion of scoffers when applied to the case of the "modern martyr." We use this term to designate, in particular, the research scholar, but by extension apply the term, as fellow travelers on the via dolorosa> to ...
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