Download or read book Shaking the Faith written by Elizabeth De Wolfe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the 19th century, Mary Marshall Dyer (1780-1867) was at the center of an aggressive anti-Shaker movement - an informal yet effective group joined by their despisal of Shakerism and their determination to thwart the new faith. With her husband and their five children, Dyer had been a Shaker for two years, but as her husband grew increasingly attracted to Shakerism, Dyer's own commitment waned, and when she announced she was leaving the sect and requested the return of her children , neither her husband nor the Shaker authorities would relinquish them. Distraught, angry, and alone, Dyer turned her anguish into action and embarked on a fifty year campaign against the Shakers. A linchpin of anti-Shaker activity, Dyer wrote numerous articles against the sect, as well as five books - and was the centerpiece of the Shakers' counterattack. The American public - especially in New England, where the Shaker movement was based - followed the debate with great interest, not least because it offered titillating details into the mysterious sect, but also because Dyer's experiences reflected profound changes in the family, religion, and gender that Americans faced in the years prior to the Civil War. In this compelling book, De Wolfe suggests that while neither the Shakers nor Dyer would agree, the latter, a mother without children and a wife without a husband, and the former, a celibate communal sect that disavowed the marriage bond, shared similar positions on the margins of society.
Download or read book From Abolition to Rights for All written by John T. Cumbler and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Download or read book The Diaries and Letters of Sir George Jackson written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-04 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original.
Download or read book Intermediality Life Writing and American Studies written by Nassim Winnie Balestrini and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays gathers innovative and compelling research on intermedial forms of life writing by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars. Among their subjects of scrutiny are biographies, memoirs, graphic novels, performances, paratheatricals, musicals, silent films, movies, documentary films, and social media. The volume covers a time frame ranging from the nineteenth century to the immediate present. In addition to a shared focus on theories of intermediality and life writing, the authors apply to their subjects both firmly established and cutting-edge theoretical approaches from Cultural Narratology, Cultural History, Biographical Studies, Social Media Studies, Performance Studies, and Visual Culture Studies. The collection also features interviews with practitioners in biography who have produced monographs, films, and novels.
Download or read book The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison written by William Lloyd Garrison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), outstanding among the dedicated fighters for the abolition of slavery, was also an activist in other movements such as women's and civil rights and religious reform. Never tiring in battle, he was 'irrepressible, uncompromising, and inflammatory.' He antagonized many, including some of his fellow reformers. There were also many who loved and respected him. But he was never overlooked.
Download or read book The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison Volume III No Union with the Slaveholders written by William Lloyd Garrison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though plagued by illness and death in his family in the years covered here, Garrison strove to win supporters for abolitionism, lecturing and touring with Frederick Douglass. He continued to write for The Liberator and involved himself in many liberal causes; in 1849 he publicized and circulated the earliest petition for women's suffrage.
Download or read book The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom written by Wilbur Henry Siebert and published by New York : Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1898 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America written by Henry Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tribunal written by John Stauffer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark anthology collects speeches, letters, newspapers, journals, poems, and songs to demonstrate that John Brown’s actions at Harpers Ferry altered the course of history. Without Brown, the Civil War probably would have been delayed by four years and emancipation movements in Brazil, Cuba, even Russia might have been disrupted.
Download or read book Report of the Board of Managers of the New England Anti Slavery Society written by Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report and Proceedings written by Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini written by Enrico Dal Lago and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Lloyd Garrison and Giuseppe Mazzini, two of the foremost radicals of the nineteenth century, lived during a time of profound economic, social, and political transformation in America and Europe. Both born in 1805, but into dissimilar family backgrounds, the American Garrison and Italian Mazzini led entirely different lives -- one as a citizen of a democratic republic, the other as an exile proscribed by most European monarchies. Using a comparative analysis, Enrico Dal Lago suggests that Garrison and Mazzini nonetheless represent a connection between the egalitarian ideologies of American abolitionism and Italian democratic nationalism. Focusing on Garrison's and Mazzini's activities and transnational links within their own milieus and in the wider international arena, Dal Lago shows why two nineteenth-century progressives and revolutionaries considered liberation from enslavement and liberation from national oppression as two sides of the same coin. At different points in their lives, both Garrison and Mazzini demonstrated this belief by concurrently supporting the abolition of slavery in the United States and the national revolutions in Italy. The two meetings Garrison and Mazzini had, in 1846 and in 1867, served to reinforce their sense that they somehow worked together toward the achievement of liberty not just in the United States and Italy, but also in the Atlantic and Euro-American world as a whole. In the end, the abolition of American slavery led to Garrison's consecration, while the new Italian kingdom forced Mazzini into exile. Despite these different outcomes, Garrison and Mazzini both attracted legions of devoted followers who believed these men personified the radical causes of the nations to which they belonged.
Download or read book The First Woman in the Republic written by Carolyn L. Karcher and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive biography restores to the public an eloquent writer and reformer who embodied the best of the American democratic heritage.
Download or read book Notes and Queries and Historic Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library and Collection of Autograph Letters Papers written by Massachusetts Historical Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
