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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Moment of decision. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994 (OCoLC)607775809 Online version: Moment of decision. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994 (OCoLC)624410922 |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Randall M Miller; John R McKivigan |
| ISBN: | 0313286353 9780313286353 |
| OCLC Number: | 29319922 |
| Description: | xi, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The Percy family, the "Adamses" of the Deep South : a study of creative melancholy / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Law, slavery, and Petigru : a study in paradox / Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease -- The agony of defeat : Calvin H. Wiley and the proslavery argument / John B. Weaver -- John Tyler as president : an old school Republican in search of vindication / Sylvan H. Kesilman -- "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 / Peter P. Hinks -- Garrison, Phillips, and the symmetry of autobiography : charisma and the character of abolitionist leadership / James Brewer Stewart -- At the crossroads : Leonard Bacon, antislavery colonization, and the abolitionists in the 1830s / Hugh Davis -- A true woman's duty "to do good" : Sarah Josepha Hale and benevolence in antebellum America / Angela Howard Zophy -- A critical moment and its aftermath for George H. Thomas / John Cimprich -- James Redpath in South Carolina : an abolitionist's odyssey in the Reconstruction Era South / John R. McKivigan -- George H. Moore - "tormentor of Massachusetts" / John David Smith. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in American history, no. 156. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Randall M. Miller & John R. McKivigan. |
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- United States -- History -- 1815-1861 -- Biography.
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- Decision making -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
- Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.
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- Slavernij.
- Nationalcharakter
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