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Fighting for the higher law : Black and White transcendentalists against slavery / Peter Wirzbicki.
Author
Wirzbicki, Peter
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Description
325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Faculty Publications
E445.N5 W57 2021
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Subject(s)
Antislavery movements
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New England
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History
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19th century
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Transcendentalism (New England)
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History
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19th century
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African American abolitionists
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History
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19th century
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Transcendentalists (New England)
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History
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19th century
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United States
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Intellectual life
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1783-1865
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Series
America in the nineteenth century
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Summary note
"This book shows how, in the run up to the Civil War, white Transcendentalists were politicized by black abolitionists. The conduit between the two was black Transcendentalists"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Transcendentalism in black and white
The latest forms of infidelity
The cotton economy and the rise of universal reformers
Fugitive slaves and the many origins of civil disobedience theory
Heroism, violence, and race
A war of ideas.
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ISBN
9780812252910
0812252918 (hardcover)
LCCN
2020020792
OCLC
1157463198
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