audiobook Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian: A Kingdom Corrective to the Evangelical Gender Debate by Michelle Lee-Barnewall in History

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In the decade before the Civil War; Concord; Massachusetts; was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set this World Right is the first book to recover and examine the voices; events; and influence of the antebellum antislavery movement in Concord. In addressing fundamental questions about the origin and nature of radical abolitionism in this most American of towns; Sandra Harbert Petrulionis frames the antislavery ideology of Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson―two of Concord's most famous residents―as a product of family and community activism and presents the civic context in which their outspoken abolitionism evolved.In this historic locale; radical abolitionism crossed racial; class; and gender lines as a confederation of neighbors fomented a radical consciousness; and Petrulionis documents how the Thoreaus; Emersons; and Alcotts worked in tandem with others in their community; including a slaveowner's daughter and a former slave. Additionally; she examines the basis on which Henry Thoreau―who cherished nothing more than solitary tramps through his beloved woods and bogs―has achieved lasting fame as a militant abolitionist.This book marshals rich archival evidence of the diverse tactics exploited by a small coterie of committed activists; largely women; who provoked their famous neighbors to action. In Concord; the fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins was clothed and fed as he made his way to freedom. In Concord; the adolescent daughters of John Brown attended school and recovered from their emotional distress after their father's notorious public hanging. Although most residents of the town maintained a practiced detachment from the plight of the enslaved; women and men whose sole objective was the moral urgency of abolishing slavery at last prevailed on the philosophers of self-culture to accept the responsibility of their reputations.