{"product_id":"to-set-this-world-right-9780801441578","title":"To Set This World Right","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. \u003ci\u003eTo Set this World Right\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to recover and examine the voices, events, and influence of the antebellum antislavery movement...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery student of American Transcendentalism should read this book; it teaches us how ordinary people helped transform U.S. politics, as well as influenced their more famous friends and neighbors. The book also testifies to the ways these women transgressed the boundary separating their 'separate sphere' of domesticity from the public sphere of political action and conscience.\u003c\/p\u003e * Emerson Society Papers, vol. 18, no. 1 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTo Set This World Right\u003c\/i\u003e, historian Sandra Harbert Petrulionis notes that when Henry David Thoreau set out on a highly principled but very criminal mission in the early morning of Dec. 3, 1859, he could have called on any number of his neighbors to take his place. It was the morning after John Brown was hanged for his role in the failed Harpers Ferry raid, and Thoreau was undertaking to transport Francis Meriam, one of the conspirators, to the South Acton railroad station, where he would board a train, eventually escaping into Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e * Boston Sunday Globe *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author considers how Thoreau and others, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, helped to shape an antislavery consciousness in Concord. This New England town, according to Petrulionis, serves as a 'microcosm' of how the acceptance of abolitionism crossed race, class, and gender lines to become a formidable force in U.S. reform.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Set This World Right\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive work. Demonstrating mastery of a range of primary materials and secondary literatures, Petrulionis has produced a fascinating study for scholars interested in abolitionism, American literary studies, or antebellum U.S. history. Her book makes a significant contribution to a growing literature on the critical grassroots role that women played in the most important reform effort in nineteenth-century America, while also contextualizing the emerging antislavery commitment of several of the period's most eloquent voices.\u003c\/p\u003e * H-SHEAR, H-Net Reviews *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405127786839,"sku":"9780801441578","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801441578.jpg?v=1730488795","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-set-this-world-right-9780801441578","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}