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Romantic reformers and the antislavery struggle in the Civil War era /

"On the cusp of the American Civil War, a new generation of reformers, including Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Robison Delany and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, took the lead in the antislavery struggle. Frustrated by political defeats, a more aggressive slave...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kytle, Ethan J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The transcendental politics of Theodore Parker
  • Frederick Douglass, perfectionist self-help, and a constitution for the ages
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe and the divided heart of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • African dreams, American realities : Martin Robison Delany and the emigration question
  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson's war on slavery
  • Conclusion: Emancipation Day, 1863
  • Epilogue: The reconstruction of Romantic reform.