![]() | Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America Subjects: United States -- History -- 1815–1861; Social reformers -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865; In this study, T. Gregory Garvey illustrates how activists and reformers claimed the instruments of mass media to create a freestanding culture of reform that enabled voices disfranchised by church or state to speak as equals in public debates over the nation's values. Competition among antebellum reformers in religion, women's rights, and antislavery institutionalized a structure of ideological debate that continues to define popular reform movements. T. GREGORY GARVEY is an associate professor of English at the State University of New York at Brockport. |
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