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The moment of decision : biographical essays on American character and regional identity
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- Creator
- edited by Randall M. Miller & John R. McKivigan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994
- Physical Details
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- xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780313286353, 0313286353
- OCLC
- ocm29319922
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-230) and index.
- The Percy family, the "Adamses" of the Deep South : a study of creative melancholy / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- Law, slavery, and Petigru : a study in paradox / Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease -- The agony of defeat : Calvin H. Wiley and the proslavery argument / John B. Weaver -- John Tyler as president : an old school Republican in search of vindication / Sylvan H. Kesilman -- "There is a great work for you to do" : the evangelical strategy of David Walker's Appeal and his early years in the Carolina low country / Peter P. Hinks -- Garrison, Phillips, and the symmetry of autobiography : charisma and the character of abolitionist leadership / James Brewer Stewart -- At the crossroads : Leonard Bacon, antislavery colonization, and the abolitionists in the 1830s / Hugh Davis -- A true woman's duty "to do good" : Sarah Josepha Hale and benevolence in antebellum America / Angela Howard Zophy -- A critical moment and its aftermath for George H. Thomas / John Cimprich -- James Redpath in South Carolina : an abolitionist's odyssey in the Reconstruction Era South / John R. McKivigan --
- George H. Moore - "tormentor of Massachusetts" / John David Smith
Subjects
- Decision making -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
- Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.
- United States -- History -- 1815-1861 -- Biography.
- United States -- History -- 1849-1877 -- Biography.
- United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.