Jumat, 28 Juli 2017

CWT Book Review: The Abolitionist Imagination

The Abolitionist Imagination Albert Delbanco; Harvard University Press Abolitionism has been a hot- button issue since the word first entered our cultural lexicon in relation to ending slavery in 19th-century America. Albert Delbanco proposes to interpret the concept in a broad cultural context, as a recurrent American phenomenon where a motivated minority sets out to …

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