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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Prelude | |
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| Opening Theme: The Hutchinson Family Singers as Reformers | |
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| First Variation: The Hutchinsons' Commercial Success and Legacy | |
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| Part First | |
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| Exposition: The Civil War and the Postbellum Problem of Antislavery | |
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| Development, Scene One, 1893: The Legacy of the Hutchinson Family Singers and of Antislavery Reform | |
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| Scene Two, the 1840s: Music and Antislavery, the Hutchinson Family Singers as Public Abolitionists | |
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| Part Second | |
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| First Section: Origins of the Hutchinson Family, 1800-1830 | |
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| Second Section: The Hutchinson Children and Some Initial Musical Influences | |
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| First Section (Modified): Milford, the Hutchinson Family, Religion, and Culture | |
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| Intermission (Bridge to Part Third) | |
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| Changes in a Northern Land: Religion, Politics, and Culture, 1820-1840 | |
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| Manufactured Nature | |
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| Part Third | |
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| First Section: Music (the Hutchinsons' First Concert) | |
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| Second Section: A Music Career and the Hunt for an Identity, 1841 | |
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| Coda to First Section: Music (Music Publishing and the Hutchinsons' 1843 Hits) | |
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| Part Fourth | |
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| Theme: Leisure and Politics in 1844 | |
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| First Variation: Money for Nothing? The Hutchinson Family Singers as Communitarians | |
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| Second Variation: Hutchinson Family Singers Fans and the Weight of Sympathy | |
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| Finale | |
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| Exposition: American Antislavery Abroad, Racially Mixed Audiences at Home | |
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| Development: Antiwar Culture and Political Antislavery, 1845-1848 | |
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| Recapitulation, Opening: Abby's Retirement, 1849 | |
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| Recapitulation, Closing: The End of the Hutchinson Family Singers | |
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| Coda to Part First: John and Fred, the 1893 Danvers Meeting, the 1893 World Expo, and the Trajectory of Black and White Antebellum Reform | |
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| Lyrics to Select Hutchinson Family Singers Songs | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |