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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.