 | To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau''s Concord Subjects: Thoreau Henry David 1817–1862; Antislavery movement -- Massachuset -- Concord -- History -- 19th century; Abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Concord -- History -- 19th century; In the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set this World Right is the first book to recover and examine the voices, events, and influence of the antebellum antislavery movement... Sandra Harbert Petrulionis is Associate Professor of English at Penn State Altoona. She is the editor of Journal 8: 1854 in The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau and coeditor of More Day to Dawn: Thoreau's Walden for the Twenty-First Century . |
