Abolitionist Imagination (The Alexis De Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics)

by Andrew Delbanco (Author), JohnStauffer (Author), Darryl Pinckney (Author), Manisha Sinha (Author), Daniel Carpenter (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

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  Abolitionists have been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring reformers who hastened the end of slavery. Delbanco sees them as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent impulse of an adamant minority to rid the world of outrageous evil.