Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-230) and index.
Contents:
The Percy family, the "Adamses" of the Deep South : a study of creative melancholy / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Law, slavery, and Petigru : a study in paradox / Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease -- The agony of defeat : Calvin H. Wiley and the proslavery argument / John B. Weaver -- John Tyler as president : an old school Republican in search of vindication / Sylvan H. Kesilman -- "There is a great work for you to do" : the evangelical strategy of David Walker's Appeal and his early years in the Carolina low country / Peter P. Hinks -- Garrison, Phillips, and the symmetry of autobiography : charisma and the character of abolitionist leadership / James Brewer Stewart -- At the crossroads : Leonard Bacon, antislavery colonization, and the abolitionists in the 1830s / Hugh Davis -- A true woman's duty "to do good" : Sarah Josepha Hale and benevolence in antebellum America / Angela Howard Zophy -- A critical moment and its aftermath for George H. Thomas / John Cimprich -- James Redpath in South Carolina : an abolitionist's odyssey in the Reconstruction Era South / John R. McKivigan -- George H. Moore - "tormentor of Massachusetts" / John David Smith.
Series:
Contributions in American history, 0084-9219 ; no. 156
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