Moment of Decision Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity

Name: Moment of Decision Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity
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ISBN: 9780313286353

ISBN-10: 0313286353

ISBN-13: 9780313286353

Edition: 1994

Authors: Randall M. Miller, John R. McKivigan

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List price: $119.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/30/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Moment of Decision



Reform and Identity in a Southern Context


The Percy Family, the "Adamses" of the Deep South: A Study of Creative Melancholy



Law, Slavery, and Petigru: A Study in Paradox



The Agony of Defeat: Calvin H. Wiley and the Proslavery Argument



John Tyler as President: An Old School Republican in Search of Vindication



"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



Varieties of Antislavery and Reform in a Northern Context Garrison, Phillips, and the Symmetry of Autobiography: Charisma and Character of Abolitionist Leadership



At the Crossroads: Leonard Bacon, Antislavery Colonization, and the Abolitionists in the 1830s



A True Woman's Duty "To Do Good": Sarah Josepha Hale and Benevolence in Antebellum America



Civil Warriors and Postbellum Reformers A Critical Moment and Its Aftermath for George H. Thomas



Redpath in South Carolina: An Abolitionist's Odyssey in the Reconstruction Era South



"Tormentor of Massachusetts"



Bibliography



Bibliography


Index