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The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union

The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union

Cirillo, Frank J.
Blackett, Richard J. M.
Rugemer, Edward Bartlett

Hardcover

Series: Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World

Black American HistoryCivil War Period (1850-1877)General Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0807179159
ISBN13: 9780807179154
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Nov 1 2023
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Winner of the 2024 Wiley-Silver Prize in Civil War History
Finalist for the 2024 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize

The astonishing transformation of the abolitionist movement during the Civil War proved enormously consequential both for the cause of abolitionism and for the nation at large. Drawing on a cast of famous and obscure figures from Frederick Douglass to Moncure Conway, Frank J. Cirillo's The Abolitionist Civil War explores how immediate abolitionists contorted their arguments and clashed with each other as they labored over the course of the conflict to create a more perfect Union. Cirillo reveals that immediatists' efforts to forge a morally transformed nation that enshrined emancipation and Black rights shaped contemporary debates surrounding the abolition of slavery but ultimately did little to achieve racial justice for African Americans beyond formal freedom.

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