The Moment of Decision: Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity (Contributions in American History) - Hardcover

McKivigan, John; Miller, Randall M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313286353 ISBN 13: 9780313286353

Publisher: Praeger, 1994

Synopsis

Focusing primarily on 19th-century social reform, political issues, or intellectual issues, the essays in this collection all consider the historical moment in the lives of representative 19th-century, and one family of 19th- and 20th-century, Americans. Each of these Americans experienced a moment of decision that converted them to action and altered their lives and identities thereafter. All the essays examine the moments of decision within regional and social contexts. In three separate sections, the volume looks at the role of identity within the southern regional context, antislavery and moral reform within the antebellum northern regional context, and the response to emancipation.

About this title

Book Description:

Focusing on nineteenth-century social reform, this volume considers the moment of decision for representative Americans, the moment that converted them to action, altered their identity, and in some instances altered the historical context in which the decision was made.

About the Author:

RANDALL M. MILLER is Professor of History at Saint Joseph's University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family, Shades of the Sunbelt (Greenwood, 1988), and with John David Smith The Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (Greenwood, 1988).

JOHN R. McKIVIGAN is Associate Professor of History at West Virginia University. He is an editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers at Yale Univerity and the author of The War Against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and Northern Churches, 1830-1865.

About this edition

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0313286353
• ISBN 13: 9780313286353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256