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Emerson's Antislavery Writings (Paperback, New Ed)
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Emerson's Antislavery Writings (Paperback, New Ed)
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Although Ralph Waldo Emerson is commonly recognized as one of the
most radical thinkers and important reformers of his age, little
has been said regarding his thoughts on the most critical reform of
his period - the abolition movement. This book presents, for the
first time, a comprehensive and authoritative collection of
Emerson's writings against slavery and the subjugation of American
Indians, writings that reveal Emerson's deep commitment to this
reform movement. Len Gougeon and Joel Myerson introduce the
collection with a substantial historical overview that puts
Emerson's contribution to the abolition movement in its social and
political context, shows existing historical treatments of Emerson
and the transcendentalists, and provides a wealth of references to
secondary reading on these subjects. The book then presents
fourteen speeches and four letters by Emerson. Four of his speeches
have been recovered from contemporary newspaper accounts and have
never been collected in any edition of Emerson's writings. Nine
were published posthumously in corrupted form in either the 1884 or
the 1904 edition of Miscellanies, and five of these nine are edited
from manuscript here. Emerson's 1855 "Lecture on Slavery", one of
his most comprehensive and philosophical statements on the subject,
is now published for the first time. The letters include Emerson's
famous correspondence with President Van Buren about the Cherokees.
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