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OverviewProvides unique insight into Reconstruction's downfall and Jim Crow's emergence. In the years and decades following the American Civil War, veteran abolitionists actively thought and wrote about the campaign to end enslavement immediately. This study explores the late-in-life reflections of several antislavery memorial and historical writers, evaluating the stable and shifting meanings of antebellum abolitionism amidst dramatic changes in postbellum race relations. By investigating veteran abolitionists as movement chroniclers and commemorators and situating their texts within various contexts, Raymond James Krohn further assesses the humanitarian commitments of activists who had valued themselves as the enslaved people's steadfast friends. Never solely against slavery, post-1830 abolitionism challenged widely held anti-Black prejudices as well. Dedicated to emancipating the enslaved and elevating people of color, it equipped adherents with the necessary linguistic resources to wage a valiant, sustained philanthropic fight. Abolitionist Twilights focuses on how the status and condition of the freedpeople and their descendants affected book-length representations of antislavery persons and events. In probing veteran- abolitionist engagement in or disengagement from an ongoing African American freedom struggle, this ambitious volume ultimately problematizes scholarly understandings of abolitionism's racial justice history and legacy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Raymond James KrohnPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9781531505608ISBN 10: 1531505600 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 03 October 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Abolitionism Now? From the Disposition of the AASS to the Determinants of Abolitionist History | 1 1 Antislavery Moderated: Samuel Joseph May and the Lessons of Respectable Reform | 19 2 Antislavery Elevated: William Wells Brown and the Purpose of Black Activism | 45 3 Antislavery Vindicated: Oliver Johnson and the Value of Abolitionism’s Grand Old Party | 72 4 Antislavery Sanctified: Parker Pillsbury and the Spirit of Abolitionism in the Fields | 100 5 A Tale of Two Slaveries: Aaron Macy Powell and the Transfiguration of Abolitionism | 125 6 Songs of Innocence and Experience: Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the Abdication of Abolitionism | 154 7 What Was Antislavery For? From the Disbandment of the AASS to the Determination of Abolitionist Women | 191 Coda: Complicated Legacies | 219 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 Index | 269ReviewsAbolitionist Twilights is a must read for intellectual historians of the Civil War era. Krohn provides an in depth analysis of the conceptual limitations that made white abolitionists problematic allies in the years following the war. His book also provides context in the longer narrative of allyship and its shortcomings in the quest for African-American civil rights.---John A. Casey, author of New Men: Reconstructing the Image of the Veteran in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture Author InformationRaymond James Krohn is an Assistant Professor of History at Boise State University. As a historian of the United States, he specializes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, slavery and abolition, social movements, and political, intellectual, and cultural history. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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