LEADER 03774nam 22004695 450 001 9911008901303321 005 20191126113341.0 010 $a9781501733734 010 $a1501733737 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501733734 035 $a(CKB)4100000009940482 035 $a(DE-B1597)533994 035 $a(OCoLC)1129149300 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501733734 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31191295 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31191295 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009940482 100 $a20191126d2019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Communitarian Moment $eThe Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association /$fChristopher Clark 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aIthaca, NY : $cCornell University Press, $d[2019] 210 4$dİ1995 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 311 08$a9780801427305 311 08$a0801427304 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $t1. "One Common Enterprise" -- $t2. Founders, Origins, and Contexts -- $t3. "They Will Soon Convince the World": Shelter, Base, and Mission -- $t4. "To Live in the Common Cause": Life in Community -- $t5. The Business of Utopia: Output, Silk, and Debt -- $t6. "Too Despotic Power": Members and Leaders -- $t7. From Community to Factory Village -- $t8. The Communitarian Moment -- $tAbbreviations Used in the Notes -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 1842 a group of radical abolitionists formed a community in Northampton, Massachusetts, in order to pioneer "a better and purer state of society." Calling themselves the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, they envisioned a world free of poverty and inequality, religious intolerance, slavery and racial injustice. In telling the fascinating and little-known history of the Association, Christopher Clark offers insights into the "communitarian moment" of the 1840s which saw the establishment of dozens of utopian communities by Americans determined to challenge the tenets of their society. One of the few places in mid-nineteenth-century America where white and black people could live as equals, the Northampton community was home to almost two hundred and fifty men, women, and children during its four and a half years of existence. The membership comprised an unusual collection of individuals, among them small manufacturers, abolitionist lecturers, teachers, craftsmen, laborers, and former slaves, including Sojourner Truth. Offering biographical sketches of a variety of intriguing characters, Clark describes the inhabitants' daily routines, their struggle to support themselves through the production of silk, the roles of men and women, and tensions among members of different cultural backgrounds. Finally, he looks at the reasons for the closing of the community and follows the lives of its members, recounting the subsequent softening of their political convictions. Throughout his masterful narrative, Clark views the Northampton Association in its wider social and cultural context. He shows how, by attempting to initiate radical change, the Association and other utopian groups tested the ideological limits of antebellum society. Clark helps us understand both the significance of their vision and what was lost when that vision was abandoned. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / General$2bisacsh 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / General. 676 $a335/.974423 700 $aClark$b Christopher, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0246074 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008901303321 996 $aThe Communitarian Moment$94393752 997 $aUNINA