Fighting for the Higher Law : : Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery / / Peter Wirzbicki.
In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy that fired the radical struggle against American slavery.In the cauldron of the antislavery movement, antislavery activists, such as William C....
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | America in the Nineteenth Century
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Transcendentalism in Black and White
- Chapter 2 The Latest Forms of Infidelity
- Chapter 3 The Cotton Economy and the Rise of Universal Reformers
- Chapter 4 Fugitive Slaves and the Many Origins of Civil Disobedience Theory
- Chapter 5 Heroism, Violence, and Race
- Chapter 6 A War of Ideas
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments