Identifying the image of God : radical Christians and nonviolent power in the antebellum United States
Between 1820 and 1860, American social reformers pioneered a 'politics of identification' which portrayed minority and socially excluded groups as both physically vunerable and socially related. This text traces the theme of identification through the literature of social reform
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9780198033226, 9780195145328, 0198033222, 0195145321
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