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Parker Pillsbury : Radical Abolitionist, Male Feminist /

Parker Pillsbury-one of the most important and least examined antislavery activists of the nineteenth century-was a man of intense contradictions. Was he a disruptive eccentric who lashed out at authority (proclaiming Lincoln the worst president in the nation's history) or a sensitive visionary...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robertson, Stacey M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Roots of Radicalism
  • 2. Marriage, Family, and the Business of Reform
  • 3. Masculinity and Women's Rights
  • 4. Abolitionism Organized or Unorganized?
  • 5. Grassroots Abolition
  • 6. An American Abolitionist Abroad
  • 7. Perfectionism and the Civil War
  • 8. Imperfect Reconstruction
  • 9. The Postbellum Quest for the Millennium
  • Notes
  • Index