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To Set This World Right : The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set this World Right is the first book to recover and examine the voices, events, and influence of the antebellum antislavery movement in Concord. In addressing fundamental questions about the origin and nature of radical abolitionism in this most American of towns, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis frames the antislavery ideology of Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson--two of Concord's
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- Author
- Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
- Publisher
- Ithaca: Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801441578
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.9 / 5 (8 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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