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Transcendentalism and Antislavery Shape Early American Literature
A survey of 1831 to 1863 highlights three guiding forces in New England literature Unitarians Transcendentalists and the anti slavery movement. It notes key figures Emerson Whittier Longfellow Hawthorne and others while detailing the Dial Liberator Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Augu stan Age as pivotal to American letters and social change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Econd
Peperiod
Whittier
Sparks
Bancroft
Holmes
Hawthorne
Emerson
Prescott
Hildreth
Motley
Longfellow
Margaret Fuller
New York
New England
Red Man
Great Lakes
Great Appalachian
Europe
England
Germany
Ireland
Atlantic States
Asia
Pacific
Times
Maryland
Dixie
West
Brown
Hana Eins
America
Jesus Christ
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
William Ellery Chenning
Newport
Harvard
Federal Street
Boston
Channing
Everbody
Dial
North American Review
Knickerbocker School
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Samuel Sewall
Liberator
William Loyd Garrison
Philadelphia
Wendell Phillips
Charles Sumner
Harriett Beecher Stowe
United States
John Greenleaf Whittier
Henry W. Longfellow
Lowell