Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in American Abolitionism, 1830–1870

by Lawrence J. Friedman

• ISBN13: 9780521270151
• ISBN10: 0521270154
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1982-05-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book, originally published in 1982, is an examination of antebellum abolitionism in the United States. Professor Friedman studies the abolitionists as individuals, delving into the psychology, sociology and group dynamics of the movement. He examines those 'immediatists' who, in contrast to gradualist circles of antislavery opinion, refused, as they saw it, to temporise with evil. He also explores the differences between the Boston and New York groups, assesses the role of the movement in the coming of the Civil War and develops an original view of feminist abolitionism.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Origins

Young missionaries: varieties of early immediatism

Sanctuaries

Insurgents of the Boston Clique

Stewards of the Lord

Voluntarists of the Burned-over-District

Transformations

'Distinctions of sex'

'The chord of prejudice'

Righteous violence

Juxtaposition

Immediatists and radicals

Termination

A troubled jubilee

Notes

Bibliographical note

Index

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