Ante-Bellum Reform

by David Brion Davis (Editor)

11 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 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.

Genres: History

Paperback

Published January 1, 1967

About the author

David Brion Davis was an American historian and authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He was the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He was a foremost intellectual and cultural historian. The author and editor of 17 books, and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Davis played a principal role in explaining the latest historiography to a broad audience. His books emphasized religious and ideological links among material conditions, political interests, and new political values.

Reviews

[Jimmy Head · Rating 3 out of 5]

1967 textbook and reads like it. Cogent observations burdened by academic aloofness. Lifeless.