Abolitionist twilights : history, meaning, and the fate of racial egalitarianism, 1865-1909 /
"In the years and decades following the American Civil War, veteran abolitionists actively thought and wrote about the campaign to end enslavement immediately. This study explores the late-in-life reflections of several antislavery memorial and historical writers, evaluating the stable and shif...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Reconstructing America (Series)
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| Summary: | "In the years and decades following the American Civil War, veteran abolitionists actively thought and wrote about the campaign to end enslavement immediately. This study explores the late-in-life reflections of several antislavery memorial and historical writers, evaluating the stable and shifting meanings of antebellum abolitionism amidst dramatic changes in postbellum race relations. By investigating veteran abolitionists as movement chroniclers and commemorators and situating their texts within various contexts, Raymond James Krohn further assesses the humanitarian commitments of activists who had valued themselves as the enslaved people's steadfast friends. Never solely against slavery, post-1830 abolitionism challenged widely held anti-Black prejudices as well. Dedicated to emancipating the enslaved and elevating people of color, it equipped adherents with the necessary linguistic resources to wage a valiant, sustained philanthropic fight. Abolitionist Twilights focuses on how the status and condition of the freedpeople and their descendants affected book-length representations of antislavery persons and events. In probing veteran- abolitionist engagement in or disengagement from an ongoing African American freedom struggle, this ambitious volume ultimately problematizes scholarly understandings of abolitionism's racial justice history and legacy." -- Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-267) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781531505592 9781531505608 1531505600 1531505597 |