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Author:

Wirzbicki, Peter, author.

Title:

Fighting for the higher law : Black and White transcendentalists against slavery / Peter Wirzbicki.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Antislavery movements--New England--History--19th century.
Transcendentalism (New England)--History--19th century.
African American abolitionists--History--19th century.
Transcendentalists (New England)--History--19th century.
United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865.
African American abolitionists.
Antislavery movements.
Intellectual life.
Transcendentalism (New England)
Transcendentalists (New England)
New England.
United States.
1783-1899
History.

Notes:

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.

Summary:

"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.

Series:

America in the nineteenth century

ISBN:

0812252918
9780812252910

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1157463198

LCCN:

2020020792

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)