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Abolitionist twilights : history, meaning, and the fate of racial egalitarianism, 1865-1909 / Raymond James Krohn.
Krohn, Raymond James, author.
2023
E185.2 .K76 2023
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Title
Abolitionist twilights : history, meaning, and the fate of racial egalitarianism, 1865-1909 / Raymond James Krohn.
Author
Krohn, Raymond James, author.
ISBN
9781531505622 (electronic book)
1531505627 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Fordham University Press, 2023.
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©2023
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English
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1 online resource (281 pages).
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E185.2 .K76 2023
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973.7/114
Summary
Provides unique insight into Reconstruction's downfall and Jim Crow's emergence.In the years and decades following the American Civil War, veteran abolitionists actively thought and wrote about the campaign to end enslavement immediately. This study explores the late-in-life reflections of several antislavery memorial and historical writers, evaluating the stable and shifting meanings of antebellum abolitionism amidst dramatic changes in postbellum race relations. By investigating veteran abolitionists as movement chroniclers and commemorators and situating their texts within various contexts, Raymond James Krohn further assesses the humanitarian commitments of activists who had valued themselves as the enslaved people's steadfast friends.Never solely against slavery, post-1830 abolitionism challenged widely held anti-Black preju­dices as well. Dedicated to emancipating the enslaved and elevating people of color, it equipped adherents with the necessary linguistic resources to wage a valiant, sustained philanthropic fight. Abolitionist Twilights focuses on how the status and condition of the freedpeople and their descen­dants affected book-length representations of antislavery persons and events. In probing veteran- abolitionist engagement in or disengagement from an ongoing African American freedom struggle, this ambitious volume ultimately problematizes scholarly understandings of abolitionism's racial justice history and legacy.
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Reconstructing America (Series)
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Introduction: What is abolitionism now? From the disposition of the AASS to the determinants of abolitionist history
1. Antislavery moderated: Samuel Joseph May and the lessons of respectable reform
2. Antislavery elevated: William Wells Brown and the purpose of black activism
3. Antislavery vindicated: Oliver Johnson and the value of abolitionism's Grand Old Party
4. Antislavery sanctified: Parker Pillsbury and the spirit of abolitionism in the fields

5. A tale of two slaveries: Aaron Macy Powell and the transfiguration of abolitionism
6. Songs of innocence and experience: Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the abdication of abolitionism
7. What was antislavery for? From the disbandment of the AASS to the determination of abolitionist women
Coda: Complicated legacies
Acknowledgments
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