American Radicals : : how Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation

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Call Number: 303.484 Ja, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / 19th Century / Jackson, Holly
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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Includes index.
Introduction: A second and more glorious revolution -- Part I. Foul oppression in the wind of freedom, 1817-1840. A tremendous no -- One bold lady-man -- O America, your destruction is at hand! -- To break every yoke -- Part II. Infidel utopian free lovers, 1836-1858. Coming out from the world -- Brook Farm on fire -- Wheat bread and seminal losses -- Marriage slavery and all other queer things -- Part III. Abolition war, 1848-1865. The aliened American -- Treason will not be treason much longer -- The provisional United States -- Under the flag -- Part IV. The radicals' reconstruction, 1865-1877. To write justice in the American heart -- A revolution going backwards -- This electric uprising -- Conclusion: On radical failure.
"A character-driven narrative history about the nineteenth-century radicals--from Fanny Wright and Henry David Thoreau to John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison--who demanded that the United States live up to its revolutionary ideals, and what their successes and failures can teach us today"-- Provided by publisher.

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