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Author:

Abruzzo, Margaret Nicola.

Title:

Polemical pain : slavery, cruelty, and the rise of humanitarianism / Margaret Abruzzo.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

330 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Slavery--History--United States--History--19th century.
Quaker abolitionists--History--19th century.
Abolitionists--History--19th century.
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
Slavery--United States--Psychological aspects.
Slavery--United States--History--19th century.
United States--History--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Self-denial, Martyrdom, and the formation of Quaker humanitarianism -- Humanity, human nature, and the problem of cruelty -- Moral responsibility and removal, 1800-1832 -- Politicizing humaneness, 1832-1839 -- Suited for slavery, 1840-1852 -- The contradictions of benevolence, 1852-1861.

Series:

New studies in American intellectual and cultural history

ISBN:

0801898528 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801898525 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)670324845

LCCN:

2010042477

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)