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Perfecting the family : antislavery marriages in nineteenth-century America / Chris Dixon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585083355
  • 9780585083353
  • 1122054661
  • 9781122054669
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Perfecting the family.DDC classification:
  • 306.8/0973/09034 21
LOC classification:
  • E449 .D6 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
"The dreadful immorality": Slavery and family life in abolitionist discourse -- From private to public: Domestic values and abolitionism -- The practice of domesticity: Radical abolitionists' experiences of marriage -- Antislavery sisters: Sorority, family, and individualism -- "A true manly" life: Abolitionist men at home and beyond -- "My heart's dearest idol": Intimacy and affliction in abolitionist marriages.
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Summary: "For three turbulent decades before the outbreak of the Civil War, radical abolitionists labored to reform American society. Some carried the struggle beyond the public crusade against slavery, extending it into the private realm of family relations. Appalled by the horrors inflicted on black families in the Southern slave states, and concerned about the precise meaning of freedom in the North, they sought to make their own marriages into models of affection and equality." - Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314) and index.

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"The dreadful immorality": Slavery and family life in abolitionist discourse -- From private to public: Domestic values and abolitionism -- The practice of domesticity: Radical abolitionists' experiences of marriage -- Antislavery sisters: Sorority, family, and individualism -- "A true manly" life: Abolitionist men at home and beyond -- "My heart's dearest idol": Intimacy and affliction in abolitionist marriages.

"For three turbulent decades before the outbreak of the Civil War, radical abolitionists labored to reform American society. Some carried the struggle beyond the public crusade against slavery, extending it into the private realm of family relations. Appalled by the horrors inflicted on black families in the Southern slave states, and concerned about the precise meaning of freedom in the North, they sought to make their own marriages into models of affection and equality." - Provided by publisher.

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