The Moment of Decision

RANDALL M. MILLER is Professor of History at Saint Joseph's University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family, Shades of the Sunbelt (Greenwood, 1988), and with John David Smith The Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (Greenwood, 1988). JOHN R. McKIVIGAN is Associate Professor of History at West Virginia University. He is an editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers at Yale Univerity and the author of The War Against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and Northern Churches, 1830-1865.

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Moment of Decision by Randall M. Miller Reform and Identity in a Southern Context The Percy Family, the "Adamses" of the Deep South: A Study of Creative Melancholy by Bertram Wyatt-Brown Law, Slavery, and Petigru: A Study in Paradox by Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease The Agony of Defeat: Calvin H. Wiley and the Proslavery Argument by John H. Weaver John Tyler as President: An Old School Republican in Search of Vindication by Sylvan Kesilman "There is a great work for you to do": The Evangelical Strategy of David Walker's Appeal and His Early Years in the Carolina Low Country by Peter P. Hinks Varieties of Antislavery and Reform in a Northern Context Garrison, Phillips, and the Symmetry of Autobiography: Charisma and Character of Abolitionist Leadership by James Brewer Stewart At the Crossroads: Leonard Bacon, Antislavery Colonization, and the Abolitionists in the 1830s by Hugh Davis A True Woman's Duty "To Do Good": Sarah Josepha Hale and Benevolence in Antebellum America by Angela Howard Zophy Civil Warriors and Postbellum Reformers A Critical Moment and Its Aftermath for George H. Thomas by John Cimprich James Redpath in South Carolina: An Abolitionist's Odyssey in the Reconstruction Era South by John R. McKivigan George H. Moore--"Tormentor of Massachusetts" by John David Smith Bibliography of Merton L. Dillion Bibliography Index