Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the SouthHinton Rowan Helper (1829--1909) gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), an antislavery polemic that provoked national public controversy and increased sectional tensions. In his intellectual and cultural biography of Helper -- the first to appear in more than forty years -- David Brown provides a fresh and nuanced portrait of this self-styled reformer, exploring anew Helper's motivation for writing his inflammatory book. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 In the Forks of the Yadkin 18291850 | 8 |
2 To the Land of Gold 18511854 | 25 |
3 Negotiating Race in a Human Menagerie | 43 |
Writing The Impending Crisis of the South 18541857 | 69 |
5 The Logical Outcome of the Nonslaveholders Philosophy? | 91 |
6 Blowing up a Storm 18571859 | 124 |
The Speakership Contest and the Coming of the Civil War 18591860 | 152 |
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Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South David Brown Limited preview - 2006 |
Southern Outcast: Hinton Rowan Helper and The Impending Crisis of the South David Brown Limited preview - 2006 |