The Human Tradition in Antebellum America

by Morrison, Michael A.; Grossbart, Stephen R.; Doan, Ruth Alden; Friend, Craig Thompson; Kornblith, Gary J.; L. Cayton, Andrew R.; Smith, Gene A.; Watson, Samuel J.; Young, Mary; Akers, Donna L.; Price, George R.; Cohen, Daniel A.; Jabour, Anya; Marszalek,

• ISBN13: 9780842028356
• ISBN10: 0842028358
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This new book consists of mini-biographies of 15 Americans who lived during the Antebel-lum period in American history. Part of The Human Tradition in America series, the anthology paints vivid portraits of the lives of lesser-known Americans. Raisi

Table of Contents

Introduction---Shuttles of a New Nation: The Private Lives and Public Actions of Ordinary Americans	xiii
Michael A. Morrison
Abraham Bishop: Teacher, Lawyer, Orator, and Politician	1	(18)
Stephen R. Grossbart
John Wesley Young: Identity and Community among ``the People Called Methodis,''	19	(16)
Ruth Alden Doan
Trotter & Sons: Merchants and the Early West	35	(18)
Craig Thompson Friend
Hiram Hill: House Carpenter, Lumber Dealer, Self-Made Man	53	(14)
Gary J. Kornblith
Senator John Smith: The Rise and Fall of a Frontier Entrepreneur	67	(16)
Andrew R. L. Cayton
Arsene Lacarriere Latour: Immigrant, Patriot-Historian, and Foreign Agent	83	(16)
Gene A. Smith
Thomas Sidney Jesup: Soldier, Bureaucrat, Gentleman Democrat	99	(16)
Samuel J. Watson
John Ross: Cherokee Chief and Defender of the Nation	115	(16)
Mary Young
Peter P. Pitchlynn: Race and Identity in Nineteenth-Century America	131	(16)
Donna L. Akers
Hosea Easton: Forgotten Abolitionist ``Giant,''	147	(18)
George R. Price
Laura Wirt Randall: A Woman's Life, 1803-1833	165	(16)
Anya Jabour
Rebecca Reed: Anti-Catholic Agitator	181	(18)
Daniel A. Cohen
Margaret Eaton: The Politics of Gender in Jacksonian America	199	(14)
John F. Marszalek
Benjamin Tappan: Democrat, Scientist, Iconoclast	213	(16)
Daniel Feller
George Washington Harris: The Fool from the Hills	229	(16)
John Mayfield
Index	245