For nearly 150 years, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the famed antislavery newspaper The Liberator, has been represented by scholars, educators, politicians and authors as the founder of the American abolitionist movement. Yet the idea that Garrison was the leader of a coherent movement was strongly contested during his lifetime. Drawing on private letters, diaries, newspapers, novels, memoirs, eulogies, late 19th century textbooks, poetry and monuments, this study reveals the dramatic social and political forces of the postwar period which transformed our perceptions of Garrison, the abolitionist movement and the first histories of the Civil War.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"This book is important in that it turns our attention to the way Northerners...especially New Englanders...constructed memories of the Civil War era...a thought-provoking addition to the literature on memory"-Civil War News.
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Zielgruppe
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
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notes, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-7864-9828-4 (9780786498284)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Brian Allen Santana is an assistant professor of English at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown. He lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: William Lloyd Garrison and the Birth of American Abolitionism in History and Popular Culture
1.?The Construction and Evolution of Garrisonian Narratives of Abolitionist Sacrifice in Antebellum America, 1834-1857
2.?Commemorating Garrison: Origins of the Garrison Revival in -Post-Bellum American Memory, 1867-1910
3.?"For Future Generations": Garrison's Children, Massachusetts Educational Reform and the Institutionalization of the Garrison Narrative in Boston Schools, 1880-1922
4.?Ross Lockridge's Raintree County: American Abolitionism as Epic Origin Narrative
Epilogue: William Lloyd Garrison in the Mid-20th Century and Beyond
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
