Slavery, War, and a New Birth of Freedom

1840s-1877

Jeffrey H. Hacker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780765683410
• eBook ISBN: 9781317459828
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Slavery, War, and a New Birth of Freedom: 1840s-1877, a new title in the six-title series History Through Literature: American Voices, American Themes, provides insights and analysis regarding the history, literature, and cultural climate of the eras of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. It brings together informational text and primary documents that cover notable historic events and trends, authors, literary works, social movements, and cultural and artistic themes.

Slavery, War, and a New Birth of Freedom begins with an interdisciplinary Chronology that identifies, defines, and places in context the notable historical events, literary works, authors' lives, and cultural landmarks of the period. This is followed by a comprehensive overview essay that summarizes the era's major historical trends, social movements, cultural and artistic themes, literary voices, and enduring works as reflections of each other and the spirit of the times.

The core content comprises 20-30 articles on representative writers of the period, along with excerpts from essential literary works that highlight a historical theme, sociocultural movement, or the confluence of the two. These excerpts serve the Common Core emphasis on "informational texts from a broad range of cultures and periods", including "stories, drama, poetry, and literary nonfiction".

Index

Page numbers followed by “i” indicate illustrations.

Abbot’s Ghost, The (Alcott), 21

abolitionist and antislavery movements, 1, 2, 12–19, 152. See also Douglass, Frederick; Garrison, William Lloyd; Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins; Howe, Julia Ward; Jacobs, Harriet; Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Underground Railroad

Alcott family and, 20

colonization movement, 13–14, 56, 58

Dickinson and, 37

division within, 16

early, 12–13

growing momentum in, 15–16

political, 47

radical, 12, 13–15, 47

violence, politics, and literature, 17–19

Academy for Negro Youth, 87

African Americans. See also Brown, Henry “Box”; Crafts, Hannah; Douglass, Frederick; free blacks (during slavery); Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins; Jacobs, Harriet; Reconstruction; slavery and slave life; Wilson, Harriet

early fiction of, 158–60

suffrage for, 111, 143, 144

African Baptist Church, 58

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 46, 87, 89

Ah Sin, the Heathen Chinee (Harte and Twain), 96

Albany Evening Journal, 96

Alcott, Abigail May, 20

Alcott, Amos Bronson, 20

Alcott, Anna, 21

Alcott, Louisa May, 2, 6, 9, 11, 20–29, 22i, 141, 187

as a children’s writer, 22–23

Alcott, Louisa May (continued)

death of, 23

early life and writings of, 20–21

proto-feminist strain in works, 23

pseudonym (A.M. Bernard) of, 21, 23

Allen, Richard, 13

American Academy of Arts and Letters, 111

American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (AFASS), 16

American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS), 15, 16, 20, 58, 87–88

American Colonization So...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Chronology
• The Literature of Slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction
• Abolitionist and Antislavery Movements
• Alcott, Louisa May
• Chesnut, Mary
• Dickinson, Emily
• Douglass, Frederick
• Garrison, William Lloyd
• Gettysburg Address
• Grant, Ulysses S.
• Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
• Harte, Bret
• Howe, Julia Ward
• Jacobs, Harriet
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Muir, John
• Reconstruction
• Slavery and Slave Life
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher
• Underground Railroad
• Whitman, Walt
• Bibliography and Web Sites
• Index