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Gregarious Saints
Lawrence J. Friedman
其他書名
Self and Community in American Abolitionism, 1830-1870
出版Cambridge University Press, 1982-05-31
主題History / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)History / Modern / GeneralHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Social Science / Slavery
ISBN05212442939780521244299
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fVDrIBtLzZsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In antebellum America the antislavery community could be divided into two general camps: the more conservative, gradualist circles of antislavery opinion; and the more inflammatory, immediatist abolitionists who refused, as they saw it, to temporize with evil. Tin this book, Professor Friedman analyzes the social psychology of the immediatist abolitionists. He explores the complex blend of conviviality and austere piety that informed abolitionist behavior and attitudes. The abolitionists, the book argues, are best understood as evangelical missionaries who contributed quite inadvertently and secondarily to sectional tensions and civil war. Hardly radicals, they were representative of the broad Northern middle-class reform community that subscribed to the pervasive values of market capitalism and Christian self-help. Professor Friedman traces the tension between conflicting abolitionist aims-conviviality and austere piety-in their daily social lives, their private lives, their contacts with free blacks, and their relations with more moderate antislavery activists. Her also develops a highly original view of feminist abolitionism and the evolution of male/female relations within the movement. Finally, he relates the tension between the abolitionistsʼ conflicting aims to their increasing receptivity to ʼviolent meansʼ against slavery and to their painful decision, in the course of the 1860s, to dissolve antislavery societies.