Puritan spirits in the abolitionist imagination
Great grim earnest men! -- Deborahs and Yaels -- A paper puritan of puritans -- Milton's Manqués -- La Belle Puritaine -- The Mayflower and the slave ship -- Conclusion: Paradise lost?
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago London
University of Chicago Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | American beginnings, 1500-1900
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Puritanism
/ Abolitionists
/ History 1800-1900
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| RelBib Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KBQ North America KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
Antislavery movements (United States)
History 19th century
B Puritans Political activity (United States) History 19th century |
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Table of Contents Blurb |
| Summary: | Great grim earnest men! -- Deborahs and Yaels -- A paper puritan of puritans -- Milton's Manqués -- La Belle Puritaine -- The Mayflower and the slave ship -- Conclusion: Paradise lost? "Kenyon Gradert investigates how the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement-whether iconic figures of it like Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Lloyd Garrison or lesser-known writers and orators-drew on aspects of American Puritanism in shaping its political persona. From this angle, we can see a movement usually identified with liberal Protestantism in a radically new light; it also recasts our understanding of puritanism, often seen as a conservative force, little interested in worldly rebellion of the sort the abolitionists championed. As Gradert writes, 'By reimagining a pervasive narrative of Puritan origins, abolitionists urged the nation to war with its original sin.'"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 022669402X |