The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform
- ISBN-10
- 0807150193
- ISBN-13
- 9780807150191
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 344
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-05-06
- Publisher
- LSU Press
- Author
- W. Caleb McDaniel
Description
Garrison signaled 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 recognized that the persistence of slavery in the United States revealed problems with the political system.
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