Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era

Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era

Kytle, Ethan J. (California State University, Fresno)

Cambridge University Press

03/2016

314

Mole

Inglês

9781107426986

15 a 20 dias

The first study of Romantic reform to focus squarely on this period, Romantic Reformers is an intellectual history of the American antislavery movement in the 1850s and early 1860s. It focuses on the ideas and actions of five Romantic reformers who became leading figures in the final years of the struggle against slavery.
Introduction; 1. The transcendental politics of Theodore Parker; 2. Frederick Douglass, perfectionist self-help, and a constitution for the ages; 3. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the divided heart of Uncle Tom's Cabin; 4. African dreams, American realities: Martin Robison Delany and the emigration question; 5. Thomas Wentworth Higginson's war on slavery; Conclusion: Emancipation Day, 1863; Epilogue: the reconstruction of Romantic reform.
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