Ethan J. Kytle

Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era

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Produktbeschreibung

Romantic Reformers is an intellectual history of the American antislavery movement in the 1850s and early 1860s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9781107074590
• ISBN-10: 1107074592
• Artikelnr.: 40844416

Autorenporträt

Ethan J. Kytle is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Fresno. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture in Charleston, South Carolina, and has been awarded the Mary Kelley Prize by the New England American Studies Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The transcendental politics of Theodore Parker
2. Frederick Douglass, perfectionist self-help, and a constitution for the ages
3. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the divided heart of Uncle Tom's Cabin
4. African dreams, American realities: Martin Robison Delany and the emigration question
5. Thomas Wentworth Higginson's war on slavery
Conclusion: Emancipation Day, 1863
Epilogue: the reconstruction of Romantic reform.