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American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
Holly Jackson
Crown, $28.00 (cloth)
American Radicals establishes the truly riotous nature of
nineteenth-century activism, chronicling the central role that radical
social movements played in shaping U.S. life, politics, and culture.
Holly Jackson’s cast of characters includes everyone from millenarian
militants and agrarian anarchists to abolitionist feminists espousing
Free Love. Rather than rehearsing nineteenth-century reform as a history
of bourgeois abolitionists having tea and organizing anti-slavery
bazaars for their friends, Jackson offers electrifying accounts of
Boston freedom fighters locking down courthouses and brawling with the
police. We learn of preachers concealing guns in crates of Bibles and
sending them off to abolitionists battling the expansion of slavery in
the Midwest. We glimpse nominally free black communities forming secret
mutual aid networks and arming themselves in preparation for a coming
confrontation with the state. And we find that antebellum activists were
also free lovers who experimented with unconventional and queer
relationships while fighting against the institution of marriage and
gendered subjugation. Traversing the nineteenth-century history of
countless “strikes, raids, rallies, boycotts, secret councils, [and]
hidden weapons,” American Radicals is a study of highly organized
attempts to bring down a racist, heteropatriarchal settler state—and of
winning, for a time.
full: http://bostonreview.net/race/britt-rusert-radical-lives-abolitionists
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