TY  - BOOK
AU  - Delbanco,Andrew
AU  - Carpenter,Daniel
AU  - Stauffer,John
AU  - Sinha,Manisha
AU  - McClay,Wilfred M.
TI  - The Abolitionist Imagination
T2  - The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics Series
SN  - 9780674064904
AV  - E449 
U1  - 973.7/114 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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