Download e-book for kindle: Rebels in Paradise: Sketches of Northampton Abolitionists by Bruce Laurie

By Bruce Laurie

some time past dubbed the “Paradise of America,” Northampton, Massachusetts, is additionally referred to as the house of visionaries—from the Reverend Jonathan Edwards, father of the 1st nice Awakening, to George W. Benson, brother-in-law of William Lloyd Garrison and a founding father of the utopian Northampton organization for schooling and undefined. through the mid-nineteenth century town grew to become a middle of political abolitionism and a hub within the Underground Railroad. during this e-book, Bruce Laurie profiles 5 rebellious figures who introduced Northampton’s abolitionist movement—Sylvester Judd Jr., John Payson Williston, David Ruggles, Henry Sherwood Gere, and Erastus Hopkins. via their person tales he lines the evolution of the antislavery move in western Massachusetts and hyperlinks it to broader advancements in economics, civil existence, and political opinions.

Northampton’s abolitionists have been a heterodox crew, but so much have been intrepid devotees of democracy and racial equality, idealists who loved actual friendships and political alliances with African american citizens. a number of even took the daring step of hiring African american citizens of their companies. They kept away from the doctrinal rivalries that typically the antislavery circulate in different places, skillfully steerage away from the xenophobic nativism that contaminated Massachusetts politics within the mid–1850s and divided the Republican social gathering at huge. even though a prohibitionist faction disrupted the Northampton abolitionist circulation for a time, the leaders prevailed at the energy in their own status and political event, making the seat of Hampshire County what one among them referred to as an abolitionist “stronghold.”

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