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Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-century America by Chris Dixon (Hardcover, 1997)

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For three turbulent decades before the outbreak of the Civil War, radical abolitionists labored to reform American society. Some carried the struggle beyond the public crusade against slavery, extending it into the private realm of family relations. Appalled by the horrors inflicted on black families in the Southern slave states, and concerned about the precise meaning of freedom in the North, they sought to make their own marriages into models of affection and equality. Chris Dixon creates a vivid portrait of these antislavery families, focusing on eight prominent couples. He examines the details of their domestic lives and reveals the relationship between their abolitionist and domestic ideologies, showing how they both confronted and conformed to the emergent bourgeois culture of ninteenth-century America. While radical abolitionists held men accountable for many of the corruptions that they felt were poisoning American life, they did not believe men were beyond redemption. As Dixon shows, the abolitionists set out to redefine masculinity by renouncing power and oppression in favor of intimacy and cooperation. Perfecting the Family examines the ways in which these reformers tried - with mixed success - to make those affectionate qualities the basis for a new, companionate type of marriage, in which women and men would go forward as equal partners.

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Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN-13
9781558490680
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96197391

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Subject Area
Children & Family
Author
Chris Dixon
Publication Name
Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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Title_Author
Chris Dixon
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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