04134nam 2200673Ia 450 991082747850332120200520144314.00-8122-0382-810.9783/9780812203820(CKB)2670000000418235(OCoLC)859160824(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748503(SSID)ssj0000980954(PQKBManifestationID)11618471(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980954(PQKBWorkID)10969700(PQKB)11246397(MdBmJHUP)muse27919(DE-B1597)449739(OCoLC)1013957119(OCoLC)979627944(DE-B1597)9780812203820(Au-PeEL)EBL3442114(CaPaEBR)ebr10748503(CaONFJC)MIL682547(MiAaPQ)EBC3442114(EXLCZ)99267000000041823520071127d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFrom abolition to rights for all the making of a reform community in the nineteenth century /John T. Cumbler1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20081 online resource (251 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51265-5 0-8122-4026-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-225) and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction: "Till Every Yoke Is Broken" --Chapter 1. The People and the Times --Chapter 2. "With Other Good Souls" --Chapter 3. "All the Great Men and Men of Respectability Stood Aloof' --Chapter 4. "To Do Battle for Justice and the Oppressed" --Chapter 5. "The Issue Is Universal justice" --Chapter 6. "Blessed Are They Who When Some Great Cause... Calls Them ... Come" --Chapter 7. Bringing Together the Professional and the Political --Chapter 8. "Public Society Owes Perfect Protection": The State and the People's Rights --Chapter 9. "A Relative Right" --Abbreviations --Notes --Index --AcknowledgmentsThe Civil War was not the end, as is often thought, of reformist activism among abolitionists. After emancipation was achieved, they broadened their struggle to pursue equal rights for women, state medicine, workers' rights, fair wages, immigrants' rights, care of the poor, and a right to decent housing and a healthy environment. Focusing on the work of a key group of activists from 1835 to the dawn of the twentieth century, From Abolition to Rights for All investigates how reformers, linked together and radicalized by their shared experiences in the abolitionist struggle, articulated a core natural rights ideology and molded it into a rationale for successive reform movements. The book follows the abolitionists' struggles and successes in organizing a social movement. For a time after the Civil War these reformers occupied major positions of power, only to be rebuffed in the later years of the nineteenth century as the larger society rejected their inclusive understanding of natural rights. The narrative of perseverance among this small group would be a continuing source of inspiration for reform. The pattern they established-local organization, expansive vision, and eventual challenge by powerful business interests and individuals-would be mirrored shortly thereafter by Progressives.AbolitionistsUnited StatesHistory19th centurySocial reformersUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAntislavery movementsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesSocial conditions1865-1918AbolitionistsHistorySocial reformersHistoryAntislavery movementsHistory973.7114Cumbler John T1681937MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827478503321From abolition to rights for all4051688UNINA