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The Abolitionist Imagination.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (220 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674064904
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Abolitionist ImaginationDDC classification:
  • 973.7/114
LOC classification:
  • E449
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Daniel Carpenter -- 1. The Abolitionist Imagination - Andrew Delbanco -- 2. Fighting the Devil with His Own Fire - John Stauffer -- 3. Did the Abolitionists Cause the Civil War? - Manisha Sinha -- 4. The Invisibility of Black Abolitionists - Darryl Pinckney -- 5. Abolition as Master Concept - Wilfred M. McClay -- 6. The Presence of the Past - Andrew Delbanco -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index.
Summary: Abolitionists have been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring reformers who hastened the end of slavery. Delbanco sees them as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent impulse of an adamant minority to rid the world of outrageous evil.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Daniel Carpenter -- 1. The Abolitionist Imagination - Andrew Delbanco -- 2. Fighting the Devil with His Own Fire - John Stauffer -- 3. Did the Abolitionists Cause the Civil War? - Manisha Sinha -- 4. The Invisibility of Black Abolitionists - Darryl Pinckney -- 5. Abolition as Master Concept - Wilfred M. McClay -- 6. The Presence of the Past - Andrew Delbanco -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index.

Abolitionists have been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring reformers who hastened the end of slavery. Delbanco sees them as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent impulse of an adamant minority to rid the world of outrageous evil.

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