James Brewer Stewart - Wendell Phillips: Libertys Hero
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Phillips, Wendell,--1811-1884, Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Biography, Antislavery movements--United States.
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1986
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E449.P56S74 1986eb
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973.7/114/0924
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Phillips, Wendell,--1811-1884, Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Biography, Antislavery movements--United States.
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Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Liberty's Hero
James Brewer Stewart
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Copyright 1986 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
Designer: Diane B. Didier Typeface: Linotron 202 Trump Mediaeval Typesetter: G & S Typesetters, Inc. Printer: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Binder: John H. Dekker & Sons, Inc.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Stewart, James Brewer. Wendell Phillips, liberty's hero. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Phillips, Wendell, 18111884. 2. Abolitionists MassachusettsBiography. 3. SlaveryUnited States Anti-slavery movements. I. Title. E449.P56S74 1986 973.7'114'0924 [B] 85-23793 ISBN 0-8071-1257-7 (cloth) ISBN 0-8071-2318-8 (paper)
Frontispiece: Wendell Phillips at the age of fifty, engraving by H. W. Smith of Boston. Courtesy Chicago Historical Society, ICHi-12134.
Louisiana Paperback Edition, 1998
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The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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FOR BECKY AND JENNY
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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
xi
One The Aristocrats' Child
1
Two The Studies of a Young Apollo
19
Three Career Despair and Marriage of Hope
36
Four The Second Wendell Phillips
54
Five Europe and Essex Street
76
Six Race, Class, and New England Abolitionists
97
Seven Disunionism and Politics
117
Eight Whigs and Slave Hunters
146
Nine The Orator and the Insurrectionist
177
Ten Citizen Wendell Phillips
209
Eleven Reconstruction, Capitalism, and the Franchise
243
Twelve Nationality
270
Thirteen The Eclipse of Republicanism
296
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Fourteen The Travail and Solace of History
320
Bibliography
337
Index
349
Page ix
Illustrations
Wendell Phillips at Fifty
frontispiece
Phillips Family Mansion
2
Ann Greene Phillips
50
Abolitionist Handbill
170
Wendell Phillips, Pencil Sketch
182
Wendell Phillips at about Fifty
221
Petition to Impeach Andrew Johnson
275
Wendell Phillips at Sixty-five
312
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Preface and Acknowledgments
Recent scholarship on the abolitionists has minimized their importance in shaping the issues of their age. Seen as piously removed from partisan affairs, the abolitionists are said to have had an only marginal impact in the North-South political conflict. Perceived as Victorian paternalists, they are declared to have been largely unable to challenge a white supremacist culture. Defined as "possessive individualists," they are considered to have been incapable of recognizing the social costs of "free-labor" industrial civilization. Understood as seekers of religious purity, they are analyzed in psychological terms that show them as more dedicated to self-discovery than to social struggle. In
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