Several of this volume's essays trace the origins of the modern immediate abolitionist campaign to the ideological ferment of the Age of Enlightenment followed by the intellectual reorientation produced by Romanticism. New perspectives on the movement's origins enable modern scholars to rebut charges that abolitionist motivation was a product of status anxiety or of an even deeper form of psychological disorder
Several of this volume's essays trace the origins of the modern immediate abolitionist campaign to the ideological ferment of the Age of Enlightenment...
This volume presents key published articles on the history of the American abolitionist movement's attempt to convert the nation's religious institutions into allies in the battle for emancipation. As this volume's essays describe, many abolitionists persisted in attempting to induce the churches to take a higher antislavery stand. Their activities helped foment the sectional schism of a number of the nation's leading denominations in the decades prior to the Civil War.
This volume presents key published articles on the history of the American abolitionist movement's attempt to convert the nation's religious instituti...
These essays demonstrate that support for a more aggressive battle against slavery had been growing for a number of decades before finding broad support among abolitionists in the 1850s. Ultimately the political and more militant wings of abolitionism converged after the start of the Civil War, when abolitionists worked to prod Abraham Lincoln into enlisting blacks in the Union army and adopting emancipation as one of the North's war goals.
These essays demonstrate that support for a more aggressive battle against slavery had been growing for a number of decades before finding broad suppo...
Reproduces 16 articles from their original publication between the middle 1960s and the middle 1990s exploring legal aspects and consequences of the movement to end slavery. The topics include the compromise of 1787; legal positivism, abolitionist litigation, and the New Jersey slave case of 1845; t
Reproduces 16 articles from their original publication between the middle 1960s and the middle 1990s exploring legal aspects and consequences of the m...
This anthology of original essays by historians explores the religious dimensions of the antebellum sectional conflict over slavery. Covering such familiar topics as the proslavery argument and denominational schisms, these essays emphasize the diversity that existed within regions, states, and denominations; the importance of local factors in shaping responses to the slavery controversy; and the powerful pulls toward moderation and unity that existed within the institutional church. Drawing on the recent flowering of scholarship on religion, the essays collected here provide a variety of new...
This anthology of original essays by historians explores the religious dimensions of the antebellum sectional conflict over slavery. Covering such fam...
The reformer James Redpath (1833 1891) was a focal figure in many of the key developments in nineteenth-century American political and cultural life. He befriended John Brown, Samuel Clemens, and Henry George and, toward the end of his life, was a ghostwriter for Jefferson Davis. He advocated for abolition, civil rights, Irish nationalism, women's suffrage, and labor unions. In Forgotten Firebrand, the first full-length biography of this fascinating American, John R. McKivigan portrays the many facets of Redpath's life, including his stint as a reporter for the New York...
The reformer James Redpath (1833 1891) was a focal figure in many of the key developments in nineteenth-century American political and cultural lif...
Focusing primarily on 19th-century social reform, political issues, or intellectual issues, the essays in this collection all consider the historical moment in the lives of representative 19th-century, and one family of 19th- and 20th-century, Americans. Each of these Americans experienced a moment of decision that converted them to action and altered their lives and identities thereafter. All the essays examine the moments of decision within regional and social contexts. In three separate sections, the volume looks at the role of identity within the southern regional context, antislavery...
Focusing primarily on 19th-century social reform, political issues, or intellectual issues, the essays in this collection all consider the historic...
"This fine book has two central themes developed in tandem, more or less chronologically. One is the effort of abolitionists to covert clergymen and church people of the North to their cause. The other is the quarrel among leaders of these churches over endorsement of abolitionist goals such as the denunciation of slaveholding as a sin against God and the cessation of Christian fellowship with congregations including slaveholders." American Historical Review
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"This fine book has two central themes developed in tandem, more or less chronologically. One is the effort of abolitionists to covert clergymen an...
"No people are more talked about and no people seem more imperfectly understood. Those who see us every day seem not to know us." Frederick Douglass on African Americans
"There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution." on civil rights
"Woman should have justice as well as praise, and if she is to dispense with either, she can better afford to part with the latter than the former." on women
"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."...
"No people are more talked about and no people seem more imperfectly understood. Those who see us every day seem not to know us." Frederick Dougla...
