The problem of evil : slavery, freedom, and the ambiguities of American reform / edited by Steven Mintz and John Stauffer.
| Other author | Mintz, Steven, 1953- |
| Other author | Stauffer, John, 1965- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2007. |
| Description | xi, 405 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Book review (H-Net) |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The ancient and medieval origins of modern freedom / Orlando Patterson -- Slavery and evil / Stanley L. Engerman and David Eltis -- Twin evils? : slavery and homicide in early America / Randolph Roth -- The transformation of slavery in the United States, 1800-1863 / Ira Berlin -- The significance and persistence of proslavery thought / Paul Finkelman -- Confederate racialism and the anticipation of Nazi evil / Robert E. Bonner -- Icarus unbound : ambition and sin in Anglo-American culture, 1560-1776 / William Casey King -- Timothy Dwight, Congregationalism, and early antislavery / Peter Hinks -- Benjamin Franklin, religion, and early antislavery / David Waldstreicher -- The specter of white chattelization : William Goodell's abolitionist thought / Jonathan A. Glickstein -- The oriental imaginary : constructions of female bondage in women's antislavery discourse / Margaret M. R. Kellow -- The supernatural and slavery : Catholics, power, and oppression / Paula Kane -- Souls of darkness : dominance and submission in the narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs / Catherine Clinton -- Political evil and the body politic in mid-nineteenth-century America / Iver Bernstein -- Labor, race, and colonization : imagining a post-slavery world in the Americas / Sharon Hartman Strom -- Bankruptcy and bondage : the ambiguities of economic freedom in the Civil War era / Edward Balleisen -- More meteor than martyr : the legacy of John Brown / Laura L. Mitchell -- Performing emancipation / Richard Wightman Fox -- The transferability of otherness : American expansionists greet the Filipinos, 1898-1902 / Michael Fellman -- Liberal Victorians and war in the age of empire / Leslie Butler -- Psychiatry and the Black soldier during World War II / Ellen Dwyer -- Dwight D. Eisenhower : religion, politics, and the evils of communism / Jack M. Holl. |
| Local note | Little-348330--305131055609 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2006037069 |
| ISBN | 9781558495692 (library cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 155849569X (library cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781558495708 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1558495703 (pbk. : alk. paper) |