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The author uses the turbulent career of Garrison to evoke the social, political and religious forces of the ante-bellum period. He shows how Garrison pursued the cause of abolition with vehemence and militance. Garrison's uncompromising stand personified the great strength and also weakness of radical reform.
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"Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history"--Container.
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Augusta Rohrbach broadens our understanding of the American literary tradition by showing how African American literature and culture greatly influenced the development of realism. Rohrbach traces the influences of the slave narratives--such as the use of authenticating details, as well as dialect, and a frank treatment of the human body--in writings by Howells, Wharton, and others, and explores questions about the shifting relationship between literature...
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"The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman-and how its breakup led to the success of America's most important social movement. In the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves' freedom. Journalist William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation...
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