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050 00 $aE449$b.S813 2001
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aStauffer, John,$d1965-
245 14 $aThe black hearts of men :$bradical abolitionists and the transformation of race /$cJohn Stauffer.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c©2001.
300 $a367 pages
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Radical abolitionist call to arms -- Creating an image in black -- Glimpsing God's world on earth -- Panic and the making of abolitionists -- Bible politics and the creation of the alliance -- Learning from Indians -- Man is woman and woman is man -- Alliance ends and the war begins -- Epilogue.
520 $aAt a time when slavery was spreading and the country was steeped in racism, two white men and two black men overcame social barriers and mistrust to form a unique alliance that sought nothing less than the end of all evil. Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, John Stauffer braids together these men's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of slavery and oppression. Who could imagine that Gerrit Smith, one of the richest men in the country, would give away his wealth to the poor and ally himself with Frederick Douglass, an ex-slave? And why would James McCune Smith, the most educated black man in the country, link arms with John Brown, a bankrupt entrepreneur, along with the others? Distinguished by their interracial bonds, they shared a millennialist vision of a new world where everyone was free and equal. As the nation headed toward armed conflict, these men waged their own war by establishing model interracial communities, forming a new political party, and embracing violence. Their revolutionary ethos bridged the divide between the sacred and the profane, black and white, masculine and feminine, and civilization and savagery that had long girded western culture. In so doing, it embraced a malleable and "black-hearted" self that was capable of violent revolt against a slaveholding nation, in order to usher in a kingdom of God on earth. In tracing the rise and fall of their prophetic vision and alliance, Stauffer reveals how radical reform helped propel the nation toward war even as it strove to vanquish slavery and preserve the peace.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
590 $bInternet Archive 2
600 10 $aSmith, James McCune,$d1813-1865.
600 10 $aSmith, Gerrit,$d1797-1874.
600 10 $aDouglass, Frederick,$d1818-1895.
600 10 $aBrown, John,$d1800-1859.
600 17 $aBrown, John,$d1800-1859.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00034505
600 17 $aDouglass, Frederick,$d1818-1895.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00049680
600 17 $aSmith, Gerrit,$d1797-1874.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00192967
600 17 $aSmith, James McCune,$d1813-1865.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00315899
600 16 $aSmith, James McCune,$d1813-1865.
600 16 $aSmith, Gerrit,$d1797-1874.
600 16 $aDouglass, Frederick,$d1818-1895.
600 16 $aBrown, John,$d1800-1859.
650 0 $aAbolitionists$xHistory.
650 0 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aAbolitionists$vBiography.
650 0 $aRadicalism$xHistory.
650 0 $aRacism$xPsychological aspects.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xMoral and ethical aspects.
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650 7 $aAntislavery movements.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00810800
650 7 $aRace relations$xMoral and ethical aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01086517
650 7 $aRacism$xPsychological aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01086630
650 7 $aRadicalism.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01087015
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 7 $aBiographies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919896
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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