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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810725803321

Titolo

William Lloyd Garrison at two hundred : history, legacy, and memory / / edited by James Brewer Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-35350-0

9786612353505

0-300-15240-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

The David Brion Davis Series

Altri autori (Persone)

StewartJames Brewer

GarrisonWilliam Lloyd <1805-1879.>

Disciplina

326/.8092

B

Soggetti

Abolitionists - United States

Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred: His Radicalism and His Legacy for Our Time -- 2. ''And There Shall Be No More Sea'': William Lloyd Garrison and the Transatlantic Abolitionist Movement -- 3. William Lloyd Garrison and Emancipatory Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America -- 4. Putting Politics Back In: Rethinking the Problem of Political Abolitionism -- 5. God, Garrison, and the Coming of the Civil War -- 6. Garrison at Two Hundred: The Family, the Legacy, and the Question of Garrison's Relevance in Contemporary America -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

William Lloyd Garrison (1805-79) was one of the most militant and uncompromising abolitionists in the United States. As the editor of the abolitionist paper The Liberator and cofounder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Garrison spent most of his life arguing against slavery on strictly moral grounds. This engrossing book presents six essays that reevaluate Garrison's legacy, his accomplishments, and his limitations. Eminent scholars-David W. Blight, Bruce Laurie, James Brewer Stewart, Richard J. M. Blackett, and Lois A. Brown-and a distinguished journalist, Lloyd McKim Garrison, who is Garrison's direct



descendant, reflect on Garrison as a political activist, an internationalist, an advocate of feminism, and more. Together they present a new appraisal of one of America's most challenging, inspiring, and controversial historical figures.