Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery

In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to...
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Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery by Wirzbicki, Peter

Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery

¥13,637

Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery

¥13,637
Author: Peter Wirzbicki
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy that fired the radical struggle against American slavery.

In the cauldron of the antislavery movement, antislavery activists, such as William C. Nell, Thomas Sidney, and Charlotte Forten, and Transcendentalist intellectuals, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, developed a "Higher Law" ethos, a unique set of romantic political sensibilities--marked by moral enthusiasms, democratic idealism, and a vision of the self that could judge political questions from "higher" standards of morality and reason. The Transcendentalism that emerges here is not simply the dreamy philosophy of privileged white New Englanders, but a more populist movement, one that encouraged an uncompromising form of politics among a wide range of Northerners, black as well as white, working-class as well as wealthy. Invented to fight slavery, it would influence later labor, feminist, civil rights, and environmentalist activism.

African American thinkers and activists have long engaged with American Transcendentalist ideas about "double consciousness," nonconformity, and civil disobedience. When thinkers like Martin Luther King, Jr., or W. E. B. Du Bois invoked Transcendentalist ideas, they were putting to use an intellectual movement that black radicals had participated in since the 1830s.

Author: Peter Wirzbicki
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 03/26/2021
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780812252910


Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2022

About the Author
Peter Wirzbicki is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University.

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