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The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. Puritan is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear this. They fervently embraced the idea that Puritans were in fact pioneers of revolutionary dissent and invoked their name and ideas as part of their antislavery crusade. Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination reveals how the leaders of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movementfrom landmark figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson to scores of lesser-known writers and oratorsdrew upon the Puritan tradition to shape their politics and personae. In a striking instance of selective memory, reimagined aspects of Puritan history proved to be potent catalysts for abolitionist minds. Black writers lauded slave rebels as new Puritan soldiers, female antislavery militias in Kansas were cast as modern Pilgrims, and a direct lineage of radical de

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/04/2020
      ISBN13: 9780226694023, 978-0226694023
      ISBN10: 022669402X
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      Book Synopsis
      The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. Puritan is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear this. They fervently embraced the idea that Puritans were in fact pioneers of revolutionary dissent and invoked their name and ideas as part of their antislavery crusade. Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination reveals how the leaders of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movementfrom landmark figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson to scores of lesser-known writers and oratorsdrew upon the Puritan tradition to shape their politics and personae. In a striking instance of selective memory, reimagined aspects of Puritan history proved to be potent catalysts for abolitionist minds. Black writers lauded slave rebels as new Puritan soldiers, female antislavery militias in Kansas were cast as modern Pilgrims, and a direct lineage of radical de

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