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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
al rights for women, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Lloyd Garrison, Joseph Sayers, Henry Ward Beecher, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were leaders. Traditional political alignment was threatened by the American or Know Nothing movement, which sought to capitalize the prejudice against those of foreign birth and the Catholic faith. Among its propagandists were S. F. B. Morse, whose Foreign Conspiracies against the liberties of the United States (1852) ran through seven editions, and Thomas R. Whitney, author of a Defense of American policy as opposed to the encroachment of foreign influence (1856). These issues, also the industrial development and commercial expansion, tended to divert attention from the slavery question. Indeed, the capitalists of the Northeast and the large planters of the cotton states drifted toward a rapprochement. Noteworthy also was the fact that many defenders of slavery were found among the clergy of the North, and that silence on the issue because of the
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
ower, 91, 288 When the Frost is on the Punkin, 61 Where does the Sky begin? 218 Whewell, 228, 234 Whipple, Edwin Percy, 125, 126 White, Andrew D., 177, 354 White, Horace, 358, 440 White, James, 157 White, R. G., 473-74, 475, 482 White, Stanford, 48 White Jacket, 156 White World, the, 169 Whither, 204, 204 n. Whiting, 348 Whitman, Walter, 17, 50, 52, 53, 65, 117, 137, 304, 569, 570 Whitney, Asa, 146 Whitney, Eli, 453 Whitney, Josiah, 467, 470, 475 Whitney, Thomas R., 345 Whitney, William Dwight, 461, 462, 464. 467-70, 475, 477 Whittaker, Frederick, 160 Whittaker, Thomas, 264 n. Whittier, 38, 47, 72, 113, 305, 306, 500, 549 Whoopee-Ti-Yi-Yo, Git along little Dogies, 515 Who wrote the Bible? 217 Why marry? 294 Whymper, Edward, 11 Widowers' houses, 286 Wiener, Leo, 602 Wife, the, 276 Wife of Usher's well, the, 507 Wigglesworth, Michael, 391 Wilde, Oscar, 107 Wilde, Percival, 297 Wilding flower, 63 Wilkes, Capt., Ch