書籍情報

出版社

Princeton University Press

発売日

1967-04-01

ページ数

492ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

15.24 x 3.12 x 22.86 cm

ISBN-13

9780691005553

ISBN-10

0691005559

価格

13769 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/History/Americas/United States/Civil War/Abolition

In The Struggle for Equality, the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson offered an important and timely analysis of the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. This work remains an incisive demonstration of the successful role played by rights activists during and after the Civil War, when they evolved from despised fanatics into influential spokespersons for the radical wing of the Republican party. The vivid narrative stresses the intensely individual efforts that characterized the movement, drawing on letters and anti-slavery periodicals to let the voices of the abolitionists express for themselves their triumphs and anxieties. Asserting that it was not the abolitionists who failed in their efforts to instill the principles of equality on the state level but rather the American people who refused to follow their leadership, McPherson raises broad questions about the obstacles that have long hindered American reform movements in general. This new paperback edition contains a preface in which the author explains some of the changing perspectives that would lead him to write several aspects of this story differently today. The original hardcover was a winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award in Race Relations.

James M. McPherson is Professor of History at Princeton University. His many books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, as well as What They Fought For, 1861-1865 ; Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution ; Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction ; and The Negro's Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted during the War for the Union.

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