Contents

• Introduction / Randall M. Miller
• I. Reform and Identity in a Southern Context. 1. The Percy Family, the "Adamses" of the Deep South: A Study of Creative Melancholy / Bertram Wyatt-Brown. 2. Law, Slavery; and Petigru: A Study in Paradox / Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease. 3. The Agony of Defeat: Calvin H. Wiley and the Proslavery Argument / John B. Weaver. 4. John Tyler as President: An Old School Republican in Search of Vindication / Sylvan H. Kesilman. 5. "There Is a Great Work for You to Do": The Evangelical Strategy of David Walker’s Appeal and His Early Years in the Carolina Low Country / Peter P. Hinks - - II. Varieties of Antislavery and Reform in a Northern Context. 6. Garrison, Phillips, and the Symmetry of Autobiography: Charisma and the Character of Abolitionist Leadership / James Brewer Stewart. 7. At the Crossroads: Leonard Bacon, Antislavery Colonization, and the Abolitionists in the 1830s / Hugh Davis. 8. A True Woman’s Duty "To Do Good": Sarah Josepha Hale and Benevolence in Antebellum America / Angela Howard Zophy
• III. Civil Warriors and Postbellum Reformers. 9. A Critical Moment and Its Aftermath for George H. Thomas / John Cimprich. 10. James Redpath in South Carolina: An Abolitionist’s Odyssey in the Reconstruction Era South / John R. McKivigan. 11. George H. Moore - "Tormentor of Massachusetts" / John David Smith
• Bibliography of Merton L. Dillon