Author: James Brewer Stewart
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807154016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Throughout the Civil War era, no other white American spoke more powerfully against slavery and for the ideals of racial democracy than did Wendell Phillips. Nationally famous as "abolition's golden trumpet," Phillips became the North's most widely hailed public lecturer, even though he espoused ideas most regarded as deeply threatening -- the abolition of slavery, equality among races and classes, and women's rights. James Brewer Stewart's study resolves this seeming paradox by showing how Phillips came to possess such extraordinary rhetorical gifts, how he used them to shape the politics of his times, and how he rooted them in his upbringing, marriage, and personal relationships.
Wendell Phillips
Author: James Brewer Stewart
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807154016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Throughout the Civil War era, no other white American spoke more powerfully against slavery and for the ideals of racial democracy than did Wendell Phillips. Nationally famous as "abolition's golden trumpet," Phillips became the North's most widely hailed public lecturer, even though he espoused ideas most regarded as deeply threatening -- the abolition of slavery, equality among races and classes, and women's rights. James Brewer Stewart's study resolves this seeming paradox by showing how Phillips came to possess such extraordinary rhetorical gifts, how he used them to shape the politics of his times, and how he rooted them in his upbringing, marriage, and personal relationships.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807154016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Throughout the Civil War era, no other white American spoke more powerfully against slavery and for the ideals of racial democracy than did Wendell Phillips. Nationally famous as "abolition's golden trumpet," Phillips became the North's most widely hailed public lecturer, even though he espoused ideas most regarded as deeply threatening -- the abolition of slavery, equality among races and classes, and women's rights. James Brewer Stewart's study resolves this seeming paradox by showing how Phillips came to possess such extraordinary rhetorical gifts, how he used them to shape the politics of his times, and how he rooted them in his upbringing, marriage, and personal relationships.
The Speaker
Author: Paul Martin Pearson
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Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past
Author: A J Aiséirithe
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807164054
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Born into an elite Boston family and a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, white Massachusetts aristocrat Wendell Phillips’s path seemed clear. Yet he rejected his family’s and society’s expectations and gave away most of his great wealth by the time of his death in 1884. Instead he embraced the most incendiary causes of his era and became a radical advocate for abolitionism and reform. Only William Lloyd Garrison rivaled Phillips’s importance to the antislavery and reform movements, and no one equaled his eloquence or intellectual depth. His presence on the lecture circuit brought him great celebrity both in America and in Europe and helped ensure that his reputation as an advocate for social justice extended for generations after his death. In Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past, the world’s leading Phillips scholars explore the themes and ideas that animated this activist and his colleagues. These essays shed new light on the reform movement after the Civil War, especially regarding Phillips’s sustained role in Native American rights and the labor movement, subjects largely neglected by contemporary historical literature. In this collection, Phillips’s views on matters related to race, ethnicity, gender, and class serve as a lens through which the contributors examine crucial social justice questions that remain powerful to this day. Tackling a range of subjects that emerged during Phillips’s career, from the effectiveness of agitation, the dilemmas of democratic politics, and antislavery constitutional theory, to religion, violence, interracial friendships, women’s rights, Native American rights, labor rights, and historical memory, these essays offer a portrait of a man whose deep sense of fairness and justice shaped the course of American history.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807164054
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Born into an elite Boston family and a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, white Massachusetts aristocrat Wendell Phillips’s path seemed clear. Yet he rejected his family’s and society’s expectations and gave away most of his great wealth by the time of his death in 1884. Instead he embraced the most incendiary causes of his era and became a radical advocate for abolitionism and reform. Only William Lloyd Garrison rivaled Phillips’s importance to the antislavery and reform movements, and no one equaled his eloquence or intellectual depth. His presence on the lecture circuit brought him great celebrity both in America and in Europe and helped ensure that his reputation as an advocate for social justice extended for generations after his death. In Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past, the world’s leading Phillips scholars explore the themes and ideas that animated this activist and his colleagues. These essays shed new light on the reform movement after the Civil War, especially regarding Phillips’s sustained role in Native American rights and the labor movement, subjects largely neglected by contemporary historical literature. In this collection, Phillips’s views on matters related to race, ethnicity, gender, and class serve as a lens through which the contributors examine crucial social justice questions that remain powerful to this day. Tackling a range of subjects that emerged during Phillips’s career, from the effectiveness of agitation, the dilemmas of democratic politics, and antislavery constitutional theory, to religion, violence, interracial friendships, women’s rights, Native American rights, labor rights, and historical memory, these essays offer a portrait of a man whose deep sense of fairness and justice shaped the course of American history.
Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life
Author: George Jacob Holyoake
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Ahead of Her Time
Author: Dorothy Sterling
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393311310
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Biography of Abby Kelly, who in preCivil War America fought to eliminate slavery and racism.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393311310
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Biography of Abby Kelly, who in preCivil War America fought to eliminate slavery and racism.
The American Review of Reviews
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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The American Review of Reviews
Author: Albert Shaw
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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American Monthly Review of Reviews
Author: Albert Shaw
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Speech Communication and Human Interaction
Author: Thomas Maynard Scheidel
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Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Public Speaking
Author: Clarence Stratton
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description