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Fighting for the higher law : Black and White transcendentalists against slavery /

This book shows how, in the run up to the Civil War, white Transcendentalists were politicized by black abolitionists. The conduit between the two was black Transcendentalists.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wirzbicki, Peter (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Series:America in the nineteenth century.
Subjects:
Antislavery movements > New England > History > 19th century.
Transcendentalism (New England) > History > 19th century.
African American abolitionists > History > 19th century.
Transcendentalists (New England) > History > 19th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 1783-1865.

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