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Paul E. Teed is professor of history at Saginaw Valley State University where he has taught since 1997. He is the author of John Quincy Adams: Yankee Nationalist. His articles have appeared in Civil War History, the Journal of the Early Republic, and American Studies. In 2012, he was chosen as Distinguished Professor of the Year by the Presidents Council of the State Universities of Michigan.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. “Bred Up Amid the Memories”
2. Divinity School and Beyond
3. Spiritual Indifference
4. The Transcendentalist Controversy
5. The Making of a Public Radical
6. A Reckoning with Ministers
7. Church and Society
8. Classes, Families and Reform
9. Slavery, Politics and the Revolution
10. Making Antislavery Culture
11. Conscience and the Fugitive Slave Act
12. Continual Alarms
13. Race, Politics and Antislavery Violence
14. Conscience, Politics and Religion
15. The Anthony Burns Crisis
16. The Politics of Confrontation
17. The Idea That Blood Must Flow
18. Principles, Parties and Partings
19. The Final Journey
20. Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Teed’s is the first complete life study of Parker to appear in many decades. Teed shows readers the full sweep of Parker’s remarkable career and his wide range as a thinker....Teed is the first biographer to recognize Parker’s important role in the antislavery movement as a mediator between the contentious Garrisonian and other political factions; the first to look dispassionately at Parker’s growing support for antislavery violence in the 1850s; the first to deal forthrightly with Parker’s racial theories and his sometimes shockingly racist pronouncements; the first to look critically at Parker’s ideas about gender and women’s rights; and the first to take seriously Parker’s reaction—which shaped his later theology—against the philosophical atheism of Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach.
— Journal of American History