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The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery - Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform (Hardcover)
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The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery - Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform (Hardcover)
Series: Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
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Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the SHEAR James Broussard
First Book Prize In The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery,
W. Caleb McDaniel sets forth a new interpretation of the
Garrisonian abolitionists, stressing their deep ties to reformers
and liberal thinkers in Great Britain and Europe. The group of
American reformers known as ""Garrisonians"" included, at various
times, some of the most significant and familiar figures in the
history of the antebellum struggle over slavery: Wendell Phillips,
Frederick Douglass, and William Lloyd Garrison himself. Between
1830 and 1870, American abolitionists led by Garrison developed
extensive networks of friendship, correspondence, and intellectual
exchange with a wide range of European reformers, Chartists, free
trade advocates, Irish nationalists, and European revolutionaries.
Garrison signalled the importance of these ties to his movement
with the well-known cosmopolitan motto he printed on every issue of
his famous newspaper, The Liberator: ""Our Country is the World,
Our Countrymen are All Mankind."" That motto serves as an impetus
for McDaniel's study, which shows that Garrison and his movement
must be placed squarely within the context of transatlantic
mid-nineteenth-century reform. Through exposure to contemporary
European thinkers, such as Alexis de Tocqueville, Giuseppe Mazzini,
and John Stuart Mill, Garrisonian abolitionists came to understand
their own movement not only as an effort to mold public opinion
about slavery but also as a measure to defend democracy in an
Atlantic World still dominated by aristocracy and monarchy. While
convinced that democracy offered the best form of government,
Garrisonians recognised that the persistence of slavery in the
United States revealed problems with the political system. They
identified the participation of minority agitators as part of the
process in a healthy democratic society. Ultimately, Garrisonians'
transatlantic activities reveal their deep patriotism, their
interest in using public opinion to affect American politics, and
their similarities to other antislavery groups. By following
Garrisonian abolitionists across the Atlantic Ocean and
exhaustively documenting their international networks, McDaniel
challenges many of the timeworn stereotypes that still cling to
their movement. He argues for a new image of Garrison's band as
politically savvy, intellectually sophisticated liberal reformers,
who were well informed about transatlantic debates regarding the
problem of democracy.
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