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Ante-Bellum Reform

by David Brion Davis

11 essays: New England reformers by R. W. Emerson; The northern attack on slavery by A. Craven; The abolitionists and psychology by M. B. Duberman; The psychology of commitment: the constructive role of violence and suffering for the individual and for his society by S. S. Tomkins; The Anglo-American world of humanitarian endeavor by F. Thistlethwaite; Religious benevolence as social control, 1815-1860 by C. S. Griffin; Charles Grandison Finney by W. G. McLoughlin; Religious groups and political parties by L. Benson; Temperance, status control, and mobility, 1826-1860 by J. R. Gusfield; The emergence of immediatism in British and American antislavery thought by D. B. Davis; Romantic reform in America, 1815-1865 by J. L. Thomas.

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