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Non-fiction --- American literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1700-1799 --- American national characteristics in literature --- Amerikaans volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- Historicism --- Historicisme --- Historisme --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] in de literatuur --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Literature and history --- United States --- History --- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --- Intellectual life --- Historiography --- Civilization

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The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798-1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers a chronicle of Apess's fascinating and consequential life. Placing Apess's activism on behalf of Native American people in the context of the era's rising tide of abolitionism, Gura argues that he deserves greater recognition in the pantheon of antebellum reformers.

Apess, William --- Pequot Indians --- Biography --- Methodist Church --- New England --- Clergy --- Indians [Treatment of ] --- History --- Indians, Treatment of --- Indians --- Christian sects --- Algonquian Indians --- Indians of North America --- History. --- Government relations --- Apess, William,

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Man's Better Angels explores the ideas that influenced antebellum reform efforts in the United States, especially after the social, political, and economic shocks the country suffered after the Panic of 1837. The Panic also galvanized reformers, encouraging some to act and others to act even more aggressively. Overwhelmingly, these reformers were animated by an ethic of individualism and self-reliance through which they believed social harmony was possible. The beliefs and assumptions that informed these reformers' solutions to America's most intractable problems presumed a causal chain that began with the reformation of individuals, and through them communities, and through them the nation and world. They repeatedly ran into hard political and economic realities that were at the core of the country's malaise but unfortunately chose to turn their effort in other directions. Gura uses seven individuals--George Ripley, Horace Greeley, William B. Greene, Orson Squire Fowler, Mary Gove Nichols, Henry David Thoreau, and John Brown--to explore the finally futile efforts of antebellum reformers to apply their solutions to America's problems, which ranged from growing inequality to the most intractable problem of all, slavery.--

Social reformers --- Social problems --- History. --- United States --- History

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