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<p><p><p>During the 1830s the United States experienced a wave of movements for social change over temperance, the abolition of slavery, anti-vice activism, and a host of other moral reforms. Michael Young argues for the first time in <I>Bearing Witness against Sin</I> that together they represented a distinctive new style of mobilization&#8212;one that prefigured contemporary forms of social protest by underscoring the role of national religious structures and cultural schemas.<p>&#160;<p>In this book<I>,</I> Young identifies a new strain of protest that challenged antebellum Americans to take personal responsibility for reforming social problems.<I> </I>In this period activists demanded that social problems like drinking and slaveholding be recognized as national sins unsurpassed in their evil and immorality. This newly awakened consciousness undergirded by a confessional style of protest, seized the American imagination and galvanized thousands of people. Such a phenomenon, Young argues, helps explain the lives of charismatic reformers such as William Lloyd Garrison and the Grimk&#233; sisters, among others. <p>Marshalling lively historical materials, including letters and life

Author

Young, Michael P.

Publisher

University of Chicago Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226960869

Subjects

Social Science, Science, History