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Practical dreamer : Gerrit Smith and the crusade for social reform
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- Creator
- Norman Dann
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First paperback edition
- Hamilton, NY : Log Cabin Books, 2009
- Physical Details
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- 655 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780975554869, 0975554867, 9780975554876, 0975554875
- OCLC
- ocn313790968
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [633]-643) and index.
- The personal side of Gerrit Smith -- The early days : boyhood, college and the era -- Human rights and values -- Philanthropy -- Style -- Peterboro -- Elizabeth and Greene -- Other relationships -- Ann Smith -- Friendship, recreation, health and balance -- Religion, business and politics -- The impact of religion -- Business endeavors -- Politics -- Social reform -- Temperance -- Women's rights -- Abolitionists -- From colonization to politics -- Commitment to abolition -- From John Brown to the Civil War -- The Constitution, the churches and the Civil War