Long Road to Harpers Ferry The Rise of the First American Left Mark A. Lause

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0745337597
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0745337593
• Author:  Mark A. Lause

This is the first comprehensive history of pre–Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals, and militant abolitionists who paved the way to the failed slave revolt at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Offering new and fascinating insights into the cast of characters who created a homegrown socialist movement in America—from Thomas Paine’s revolution to Robert Owen’s utopianism, and from Thomas Skidmore’s agrarianism to George Henry Evans’s industrial workers’ reforms—Long Road to Harpers Ferry captures the spirit of the times. Showing how class solidarity and consciousness became more important to a generation of workers than notions of American citizenship, the book offers a fascinating historical background to help us understand the rise of radicalism in the United States today.

Table of contents:

Part One Working Citizens: From Ideas to Organization

1. Liberty: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Legacies and Challenges

2. Equality: The Mandates of Community and the Necessity of Expropriation

3. Solidarity: Coalescing a Mass Resistance

Part Two Working Citizens Towards a Working Class: From Organization to a Movement

4. The Movement Party: Beyond the Failures of Civic Ritual

5. Confronting Race and Empire: Slavery and Mexico

6. Free Soil: The Electoral Distillation of Radicalism, 1847–8

Part Three An Unrelenting Radicalism: From Movement to Cadres

7. Free Soil Radicalized: The Rise and Course of the Free Democrats, 1849–53

8. The Pre-Revolutionary Tinderbox: Universal Democratic Republicans, Free Democrats and Radical Abolitionists, 1853–6

9. The Spark: Small Initiatives and Mass Upheavals, 1856–60

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