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The moment of decision : biographical essays on American character and regional identity

Author: Randall M Miller; John R McKivigan
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
Series: Contributions in American history, no. 156.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Biography
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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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