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Several of this volume's essays trace the origins of the modern immediate abolitionist campaign to the ideological ferment of the Age of Enlightenment followed by the intellectual reorientation produced by Romanticism. New perspectives on the movement's origins enable modern scholars to rebut charges that abolitionist motivation was a product of status anxiety or of an even deeper form of psychological disorder
Sample Entries: David, David Brion. The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought. Mississippi Valley Historical Review 49 (1962); Gerteis, Louis C. Slavery and Hard Times: Morality and Utility in American Antislavery Reform. Civil War History 29 (1983); Huston, James L. The Experiential Basis of the Northern Antislavery Impulse. Journal of Southern History 56 (1990); Quist, John W. The Great Majority of Our Subscribers are Farmers': The Michigan Abolitionist Constituency of the 1840s. Journal of the Early Republic 14 ( 1994); Thomas, John L. Romantic Reform in America, 1815-1865. American Quarterly 17 (1965).
Biography
John R. McKivigan
