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The Moment of Decision Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity

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Randall M. Miller, John R. McKivigan

Book Code: MTZ/

ISBN: 0-313-28635-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28635-3

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256 pages, photographs

Greenwood Press

Publication: 6/30/1994

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Subjects:

History » American History -- Nineteenth Century

Series Title: Contributions in American History

Series Number: 156

Description: Focusing primarily on 19th-century social reform, political issues, or intellectual issues, the essays in this collection all consider the "historical moment" in the lives of representative 19th-century, and one family of 19th- and 20th-century, Americans. Each of these Americans experienced a "moment of decision" that converted them to action and altered their lives and identities thereafter. All the essays examine the moments of decision within regional and social contexts. In three separate sections, the volume looks at the role of identity within the southern regional context, antislavery and moral reform within the antebellum northern regional context, and the response to emancipation.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Moment of Decision by Randall M. Miller
Reform and Identity in a Southern Context
The Percy Family, the "Adamses" of the Deep South: A Study of Creative Melancholy by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Law, Slavery, and Petigru: A Study in Paradox by Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease
The Agony of Defeat: Calvin H. Wiley and the Proslavery Argument by John H. Weaver
John Tyler as President: An Old School Republican in Search of Vindication by Sylvan Kesilman
"There is a great work for you to do": The Evangelical Strategy of David Walker's Appeal and His Early Years in the Carolina Low Country by Peter P. Hinks
Varieties of Antislavery and Reform in a Northern Context
Garrison, Phillips, and the Symmetry of Autobiography: Charisma and Character of Abolitionist Leadership by James Brewer Stewart
At the Crossroads: Leonard Bacon, Antislavery Colonization, and the Abolitionists in the 1830s by Hugh Davis
A True Woman's Duty "To Do Good": Sarah Josepha Hale and Benevolence in Antebellum America by Angela Howard Zophy
Civil Warriors and Postbellum Reformers
A Critical Moment and Its Aftermath for George H. Thomas by John Cimprich
James Redpath in South Carolina: An Abolitionist's Odyssey in the Reconstruction Era South by John R. McKivigan
George H. Moore--"Tormentor of Massachusetts" by John David Smith
Bibliography of Merton L. Dillion
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 93-30981

LCC Class: E415

Dewey Class: 973


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