Format:
x, 317 Seiten.
ISBN:
978-0-8071-7915-4
Series Statement:
Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic World
Content:
"Frank Cirillo's "The Abolitionist Civil War" examines the dramatic transformation of the abolitionist movement during the American Civil War, specifically its far-reaching origins, shifting contours, and drastic consequences for both abolitionism and the nation. To do so, he focuses on ten figures spanning the race and gender lines of the abolitionist movement: William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Frederick Douglass, George Cheever, Moncure Conway, Charlotte Forten, Lydia Maria Child, Stephen Foster, Abby Kelley Foster, and Parker Pillsbury. His study extends the story of immediatism deep into the Civil War and beyond, fleshing out its true nature as a morally nationalistic, ideologically multifarious, and politically dynamic movement. It demonstrates how interventionists during the first half of the war helped bring about a Union policy of military emancipation that had seemed far from inevitable, and it explores the unintended but disastrous repercussions of their intervention during the second half of the war, as abolitionism stunted its own power to secure further, lasting change beyond formal emancipation. It tells the tale of a movement whose greatest victory ensured its ultimate failure. In founding their movement in the 1830s, immediate abolitionists, or immediatists, advocated racial justice for justice's sake. However, they also grounded their mission in their own sense of nationalism. They strove as their endgame to construct a morally transformed Union: a land, purged through a moral revolution of its original sin of racial bondage and bigotry, which could fulfill its divine destiny as the lighthouse of democracy [...]."
Note:
The Dilemma of the Secession Winter -- The Onset of Civil War, April-May 1861 -- An Interventionist Strategy Emerges, June-Mid-July 1861 -- The Impact of Bull Run, Late July-August 1861 -- The Rise of the Emancipation League, September-December 1861 -- On to Washington, January-March 1862 -- Imagining Reconstructions, March-September 1862 -- The Afterglow of Emancipation, September 1862-January 1863 -- The Stirrings of Realignment, February-June 1863 -- The Collapse of the Interventionists, June-December 1863 -- The Competing Conventions, January-June 1864 -- The Perils of Abolitionist Politicking, June-December 1864 -- The End of Wartime Abolitionism, January-May 1865
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, pdf ISBN 978-0-8071-8066-2
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, epub ISBN 978-0-8071-8065-5
Language:
English
Keywords:
Abolitionismus
;
History
