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Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)

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Born into an elite Boston circle of relatives and a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, white Massachusetts aristocrat Wendell Phillips’s path appeared clear. Yet he rejected his circle of relatives’s and society’s expectations and gave away most of his great wealth by the point of his death in 1884. As an alternative 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 The usa and in Europe and helped be sure 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 in large part neglected by recent 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 a very powerful social justice questions that remain powerful to this day. Tackling a range of subjects that emerged right through 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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