Raymond James Krohn

Abolitionist Twilights (eBook, PDF)

History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865-1909

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides unique insight into Reconstruction's downfall and Jim Crow's emergence.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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781531505622
• Artikelnr.: 72415989

Autorenporträt

Raymond James Krohn is an Assistant Professor of History at Boise State University. As a historian of the United States, he specializes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, slavery and abolition, social movements, and political, intellectual, and cultural history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: What Is Abolitionism Now?
From the Disposition of the AASS to the Determinants of Abolitionist
History 1
1 Antislavery Moderated: Samuel Joseph May and the Lessons of Respectable
Reform 19
2 Antislavery Elevated: William Wells Brown and the Purpose of Black
Activism 45
3 Antislavery Vindicated: Oliver Johnson and the Value of Abolitionism's
Grand Old Party 72
4 Antislavery Sanctified: Parker Pillsbury and the Spirit of Abolitionism
in the Fields 100
5 A Tale of Two Slaveries: Aaron Macy Powell and the Transfiguration of
Abolitionism 125
6 Songs of Innocence and Experience: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
and the Abdication of Abolitionism 154
7 What Was Antislavery For? From the Disbandment of the AASS to
the Determination of Abolitionist Women 191
Coda: Complicated Legacies 219
Acknowledgments 221
Notes 225
Index 269