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“Liberty to the Downtrodden”: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer (The Lamar Series in Western History)

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Thomas L. Kane (1822–1883), a crusader for antislavery, women’s rights, and the downtrodden, rose to prominence in his day as essentially the most ardent and persuasive defender of Mormons’ religious liberty. Despite the fact that not a Mormon, Kane sought to defend the much-reviled group from the “Holy War” waged against them by evangelical The united states. His courageous personal intervention averted a potentially catastrophic bloody conflict between federal troops and Mormon settlers within the now nearly forgotten Utah War of 1857–58.

 

Drawing on extensive, newly to be had archives, this book is the primary to inform the entire story of Kane’s ordinary life. The book illuminates his powerful Philadelphia circle of relatives, his personal life and eccentricities, his reform achievements, his place in Mormon history, and his career as a Civil War general. Further, the book revises previous understandings of nineteenth-century reform, showing how Kane and likeminded others fused Democratic Party ideology, anti-evangelicalism, and romanticism.

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