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The Moment of Decision Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity
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Book Code: MTZ/
ISBN: 0-313-28635-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28635-3
256 pages, photographs
Greenwood Press
Publication: 6/30/1994
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
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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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