The Golden Hour (1862) by Moncure D. Conway (Original Classics)
The Golden Hour (1862) by Moncure D. Conway (Original Classics)

Author: Moncure Daniel Conway

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781530957675

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Moncure Daniel Conway (March 17, 1832 - November 15, 1907) was an American abolitionist as well as at various times a Methodist, Unitarian and Freethought minister. The radical writer descended from patriotic and patrician families of Virginia and Maryland spent most of the final four decades of his life abroad in England and France, where he wrote biographies of Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Paine, as well as his own autobiography, and led freethinkers in London's South Place Chapel Conway was born in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia, to parents descended from the First Families of Virginia.[2] His father Walter Peyton Conway was a wealthy slave-holding gentleman farmer, county judge and state representative, whose home, known as the Conway House, still stands at 305 King Street (a.k.a. River Road) along the Rappahannock River.[3] Conway's mother Margaret Stone Daniel Conway was the granddaughter of Thomas Stone of Maryland (a signer of the Declaration of Independence), and in addition to running the household, also practiced homeopathy learned from her doctor father. Both parents were Methodists, his father having left the Episcopal church

The Golden Hour
The Golden Hour

Author: Moncure Daniel Conway

Publisher:

Published: 1862

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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An appeal for the immediate abolition of slavery.

The Golden Hour
The Golden Hour

Author: Moncure Daniel Conway

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-17

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9781357020026

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Fighting for the Higher Law
Fighting for the Higher Law

Author: Peter Wirzbicki

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2021-03-26

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 081229789X

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In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy that fired the radical struggle against American slavery. In the cauldron of the antislavery movement, antislavery activists, such as William C. Nell, Thomas Sidney, and Charlotte Forten, and Transcendentalist intellectuals, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, developed a "Higher Law" ethos, a unique set of romantic political sensibilities—marked by moral enthusiasms, democratic idealism, and a vision of the self that could judge political questions from "higher" standards of morality and reason. The Transcendentalism that emerges here is not simply the dreamy philosophy of privileged white New Englanders, but a more populist movement, one that encouraged an uncompromising form of politics among a wide range of Northerners, black as well as white, working-class as well as wealthy. Invented to fight slavery, it would influence later labor, feminist, civil rights, and environmentalist activism. African American thinkers and activists have long engaged with American Transcendentalist ideas about "double consciousness," nonconformity, and civil disobedience. When thinkers like Martin Luther King, Jr., or W. E. B. Du Bois invoked Transcendentalist ideas, they were putting to use an intellectual movement that black radicals had participated in since the 1830s.

Autobiography
Autobiography

Author: Moncure Daniel Conway

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-06-07

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1108050603

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This 1904 autobiography describes the life of an American proponent of anti-slavery, free religion, social reform and women's suffrage.

Armies of Deliverance
Armies of Deliverance

Author: Elizabeth R. Varon

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-02-13

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0190860626

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Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Northerners imagined the war as a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination and to bring democracy, prosperity, and education to the region. As the war escalated, Lincoln and his allies built the case that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit the North and South alike. The theme of deliverance was essential in mobilizing a Unionist coalition of Northerners and anti-Confederate Southerners. Confederates, fighting to establish an independent slaveholding republic, were determined to preempt, discredit, and silence Yankee appeals to the Southern masses. In their quest for political unity Confederates relentlessly played up two themes: Northern barbarity and Southern victimization. Casting the Union army as ruthless conquerors, Confederates argued that the emancipation of blacks was synonymous with the subjugation of the white South. Interweaving military and social history, Varon shows that everyday acts on the ground--from the flight of slaves, to protests against the draft, the plundering of civilian homes, and civilian defiance of military occupation--reverberated at the highest levels of government. Varon also offers new perspectives on major battles, illuminating how soldiers and civilians alike coped with the physical and emotional toll of the war as it grew into a massive humanitarian crisis. The Union's politics of deliverance helped it to win the war. But such appeals failed to convince Confederates to accept peace on the victor's terms, ultimately sowing the seeds of postwar discord. Armies of Deliverance offers innovative insights on the conflict for those steeped in Civil War history and novices alike.