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Author Delbanco, Andrew, 1952-

Title The abolitionist imagination / Andrew Delbanco ; with commentaries by John Stauffer, Manisha Sinha, Darryl Pinckney, and Wilfred M. McClay
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 205 pages)
Series The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics
Contents The abolitionist imagination / Andrew Delbanco -- Fighting the devil with his own fire / John Stauffer -- Did the abolitionists cause the Civil War? / Manisha Sinha -- The invisibility of black abolitionists / Darryl Pinckney -- Abolition as master concept / Wilfred M. McClay -- Rejoinder: the presence of the past / Andrew Delbanco
Summary Revisits the nineteenth century abolitionist movement as the embodiment of a driving force in American history, giving a better understanding of the balance between moral fervor and political responsibility
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY -- Essays.
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements
Abolitionists -- United States -- History.
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Stauffer, John, 1965-
Sinha, Manisha.
Pinckney, Darryl, 1953-
McClay, Wilfred M.
LC no. 2011038252
ISBN 9780674069305
0674069307
9780674064904
0674064909