Passionate Liberator : Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform.

Passionate Liberator : Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform.

Recounts Weld's intense childhood, his stormy Religious conversion, his entry into the World of reform, and finally, his rejection of public life.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Abzug, Robert H.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 1982
Subjects:	Weld, Theodore Dwight, > 1803-1895. Antislavery movements > United States. United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Contents; 1. Tornado Boyhood; 2. Andover and Escape; 3. Conversion; 4. Physiology and Armageddon; 5. Lane Seminary I; 6. Lane Seminary II; 7. Abolitionist Orator; 8. Reevaluation and Departures; 9. The Grief of Joy; 10. A Reforming Marriage; 11. "I have ceased to know myself"; 12. New Theology, New Career; 13. Eagleswood; 14. Wars, Civil and Familial; 15. Last Years; Notes; Bibliography; Index.