From Abolition to Rights for All : The Making of a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century /

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The Civil War was not the end, as is often thought, of reformist activism among abolitionists. After emancipation was achieved, they broadened their struggle to pursue equal rights for women, state medicine, workers' rights, fair wages, immigrants' rights, care of the poor, and a right to...

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Autor principal: Cumbler, John T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social reformers.
Social conditions
Antislavery movements.
Abolitionists.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Reformateurs sociaux > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Abolitionnistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Social reformers > United States > History > 19th century.
Abolitionists > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1865-1918.
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: "Till Every Yoke Is Broken"
  • Chapter 1. The People and the Times
  • Chapter 2. "With Other Good Souls"
  • Chapter 3. "All the Great Men and Men of Respectability Stood Aloof'
  • Chapter 4. "To Do Battle for Justice and the Oppressed"
  • Chapter 5. "The Issue Is Universal justice"
  • Chapter 6. "Blessed Are They Who When Some Great Cause. Calls Them. Come"
  • Chapter 7. Bringing Together the Professional and the Political
  • Chapter 8. "Public Society Owes Perfect Protection": The State and the People's Rights
  • Chapter 9. "A Relative Right"
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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