Jerome Tharaud
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780691200101
- eISBN:
- 9780691203263
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691200101.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter traces how American abolitionists took up evangelical media strategies in the mid- and late 1830s, launching circulating antislavery libraries that adapted evangelical space to the ...
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This chapter traces how American abolitionists took up evangelical media strategies in the mid- and late 1830s, launching circulating antislavery libraries that adapted evangelical space to the geographies of slavery. It mentions that the American Anti-Slavery Society urged readers to extend their “ethical horizon” beyond the local. It also details how the Society used events in the Caribbean and elsewhere to refocus evangelical zeal from Asia to the U.S. South, which transformed the world missionary enterprise into a model for national reform in the process. The chapter shows how abolitionists adapted traditional sacred geographies to chart the global contours of modernity's cruelest and most insidious institution. It maps the cosmic contours of the abolitionist spatial imagination and intervenes in scholarly debates surrounding the history of abolitionism, religious reform movements, and American literary and cultural studies.Less
This chapter traces how American abolitionists took up evangelical media strategies in the mid- and late 1830s, launching circulating antislavery libraries that adapted evangelical space to the geographies of slavery. It mentions that the American Anti-Slavery Society urged readers to extend their “ethical horizon” beyond the local. It also details how the Society used events in the Caribbean and elsewhere to refocus evangelical zeal from Asia to the U.S. South, which transformed the world missionary enterprise into a model for national reform in the process. The chapter shows how abolitionists adapted traditional sacred geographies to chart the global contours of modernity's cruelest and most insidious institution. It maps the cosmic contours of the abolitionist spatial imagination and intervenes in scholarly debates surrounding the history of abolitionism, religious reform movements, and American literary and cultural studies.
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801451614
- eISBN:
- 9780801469442
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801451614.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This introductory chapter presents the account of American abolitionist John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, particularly the event that happened to his wife, daughters, and daughters-in-law the night ...
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This introductory chapter presents the account of American abolitionist John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, particularly the event that happened to his wife, daughters, and daughters-in-law the night following the raid. Many Americans have professed interest in the Brown women. Yet the women remain missing from the prevailing popular narrative about John Brown. Biographers, abolitionists, and Brown aficionados, past and present, have looked to Brown's family as his private antislavery army. Given this military metaphor, it is unsurprising that much of the interest has been with the Brown sons, As such, the book studies Brown women's involvement in the antislavery cause and their crucial roles in preserving and transforming his legacy.Less
This introductory chapter presents the account of American abolitionist John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, particularly the event that happened to his wife, daughters, and daughters-in-law the night following the raid. Many Americans have professed interest in the Brown women. Yet the women remain missing from the prevailing popular narrative about John Brown. Biographers, abolitionists, and Brown aficionados, past and present, have looked to Brown's family as his private antislavery army. Given this military metaphor, it is unsurprising that much of the interest has been with the Brown sons, As such, the book studies Brown women's involvement in the antislavery cause and their crucial roles in preserving and transforming his legacy.
