000276822 000__ 03538cam\a2200433\a\45e0 000276822 001__ 276822 000276822 005__ 20210513103731.0 000276822 008__ 010712s2002\\\\maua\\\\\b\\\\001\0deng\\ 000276822 010__ $$a 2001039474 000276822 015__ $$aGBA2-13803 000276822 019__ $$a48883486 000276822 020__ $$a0674006453 000276822 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm47705437 000276822 035__ $$a276822 000276822 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dC#P$$dUKM$$dVOC$$dWSL 000276822 043__ $$an-us--- 000276822 049__ $$aISEA 000276822 05000 $$aE449$$b.S813 2002 000276822 08200 $$a973.7/114/0922$$221 000276822 1001_ $$aStauffer, John,$$d1965- 000276822 24514 $$aThe black hearts of men :$$bradical abolitionists and the transformation of race /$$cJohn Stauffer. 000276822 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2002. 000276822 300__ $$a367 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm. 000276822 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000276822 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- Radical abolitionist call to arms -- Creating an image in black -- Glimpsing God's world on earth -- Panic and the making of abolitionists -- Bible politics and the creation of the alliance -- Learning from Indians -- Man is woman and woman is man -- Alliance ends and the war begins -- Epilogue. 000276822 520__ $$aAt a time when slavery was spreading and the country was steeped in racism, two white men and two black men overcame social barriers and mistrust to form a unique alliance that sought nothing less than the end of all evil. Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, John Stauffer braids together these men's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of slavery and oppression. Who could imagine that Gerrit Smith, one of the richest men in the country, would give away his wealth to the poor and ally himself with Frederick Douglass, an ex-slave? And why would James McCune Smith, the most educated black man in the country, link arms with John Brown, a bankrupt entrepreneur, along with the others? Distinguished by their interracial bonds, they shared a millennialist vision of a new world where everyone was free and equal. As the nation headed toward armed conflict, these men waged their own war by establishing model interracial communities, forming a new political party, and embracing violence. Their revolutionary ethos bridged the divide between the sacred and the profane, black and white, masculine and feminine, and civilization and savagery that had long girded western culture. In so doing, it embraced a malleable and "black-hearted" self that was capable of violent revolt against a slaveholding nation, in order to usher in a kingdom of God on earth. In tracing the rise and fall of their prophetic vision and alliance, Stauffer reveals how radical reform helped propel the nation toward war even as it strove to vanquish slavery and preserve the peace. 000276822 60010 $$aSmith, James McCune,$$d1813-1865. 000276822 60010 $$aSmith, Gerrit,$$d1797-1874. 000276822 60010 $$aDouglass, Frederick,$$d1818-1895. 000276822 60010 $$aBrown, John,$$d1800-1859. 000276822 650_0 $$aAbolitionists$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000276822 650_0 $$aAntislavery movements$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000276822 650_0 $$aAbolitionists$$zUnited States$$vBiography. 000276822 650_0 $$aRadicalism$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000276822 650_0 $$aRacism$$zUnited States$$xPsychological aspects$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000276822 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xRace relations$$xMoral and ethical aspects. 000276822 85200 $$bgen$$hE449$$i.S813$$i2002 000276822 85642 $$3Book review (H-Net)$$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c9x7-aa 000276822 85642 $$3Book review (H-Net)$$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c8w7-aa 000276822 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:276822$$pGLOBAL_SET 000276822 980__ $$aBIB 000276822 980__ $$aBOOK 000276822 994__ $$aE0$$bISE