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Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past (Hardcover)
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Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past (Hardcover)
Series: Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
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Born into an elite Boston family and a graduate of both Harvard
College and Harvard Law School, white Massachusetts aristocrat
Wendell Phillips's path seemed clear. Yet he rejected his family's
and society's expectations and gave away most of his great wealth
by the time of his death in 1884. Instead he embraced the most
incendiary causes of his era and became a radical advocate for
abolitionism and reform. Only William Lloyd Garrison rivaled
Phillips's importance to the antislavery and reform movements, and
no one equaled his eloquence or intellectual depth. His presence on
the lecture circuit brought him great celebrity both in America and
in Europe and helped ensure that his reputation as an advocate for
social justice extended for generations after his death. In Wendell
Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past, the world's
leading Phillips scholars explore the themes and ideas that
animated this activist and his colleagues. These essays shed new
light on the reform movement after the Civil War, especially
regarding Phillips's sustained role in Native American rights and
the labor movement, subjects largely neglected by contemporary
historical literature. In this collection, Phillips's views on
matters related to race, ethnicity, gender, and class serve as a
lens through which the contributors examine crucial social justice
questions that remain powerful to this day. Tackling a range of
subjects that emerged during Phillips's career, from the
effectiveness of agitation, the dilemmas of democratic politics,
and antislavery constitutional theory, to religion, violence,
interracial friendships, women's rights, Native American rights,
labor rights, and historical memory, these essays offer a portrait
of a man whose deep sense of fairness and justice shaped the course
of American history.
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