To Set This World Right – The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau`s Concord
Autor Sandra Harbert Petrulionisen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2006
In this historic locale, radical abolitionism crossed racial, class, and gender lines as a confederation of neighbors fomented a radical consciousness, and Petrulionis documents how the Thoreaus, Emersons, and Alcotts worked in tandem with others in their community, including a slaveowner's daughter and a former slave. Additionally, she examines the basis on which Henry Thoreau--who cherished nothing more than solitary tramps through his beloved woods and bogs--has achieved lasting fame as a militant abolitionist.
This book marshals rich archival evidence of the diverse tactics exploited by a small coterie of committed activists, largely women, who provoked their famous neighbors to action. In Concord, the fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins was clothed and fed as he made his way to freedom. In Concord, the adolescent daughters of John Brown attended school and recovered from their emotional distress after their father's notorious public hanging. Although most residents of the town maintained a practiced detachment from the plight of the enslaved, women and men whose sole objective was the moral urgency of abolishing slavery at last prevailed on the philosophers of self-culture to accept the responsibility of their reputations.
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ISBN-13: 9780801441578
ISBN-10: 0801441579
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 165 x 241 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Wiley
ISBN-10: 0801441579
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 165 x 241 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Wiley
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In the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set this World Right is the first book to recover and examine the voices, events, and influence of the antebellum antislavery movement...