Jesse Macy

The Anti-Slavery Crusade

A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There is no evidence that there was any direct connection between the publication of the Liberator and the servile insurrection which occurred during the following August. It was, however, but natural that the South should associate the two events. A few utterances of the paper were fitted, if not intended, to incite insurrection. One passage reads:... "Rather than see men wearing their chains in a cowardly and servile spirit, I would, as an advocate of peace, much rather see them breaking the heads of the tyrant with their chains." -from "The Turning Point" It's the rare history book that offers first-person knowledge combined with an understanding of the grander context in which the events depicted too place, but we have such a unique confluence in this 1919 book. Jesse May, born into a family of Midwest abolitionists and a Quaker noncombatant during the Civil War, grew up to become a respected historian and political scientist, and he brings his unusual perspective on slavery and abolition in America to this concise, clear-headed survey. From an expurgated tidbit condemning slavery in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence to the particular power of women in the antislavery movement, Macy's work is a brief but devastating argument about hypocrisy, democracy, and freedom in America in the mid-19th century. American political scientist JESSE MACY (1842-1919) was a professor at Grinnell College. He wrote extensively on political, social, and civic matters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cosimo Classics
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 317g
• ISBN-13: 9781596057227
• ISBN-10: 159605722X
• Artikelnr.: 21588141

Autorenporträt

Jesse Macy (June 21, 1842 - November 2, 1919) was a United States political scientist and historian that specialized in the history of American political parties, party systems, and the Civil War in the late nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. He spent the majority of his professional career at Grinnell College, his alma mater. Jesse Macy, the thirteenth of fourteen children, was born in Indiana to Quaker parents, but the family relocated to central Iowa in 1856 and began farming outside Lynnville, near the newly established town of Grinnell. He enrolled in Iowa College, now Grinnell College, when he was 17 years old. He served in the Union army during the Civil War and did not graduate until after the war, getting an A.B. in 1870.