Free spirits : spiritualism, Republicanism, and radicalism in the Civil War era

Free spirits : spiritualism, Republicanism, and radicalism in the Civil War era /

Enlisting the dead to change the world of the living.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lause, Mark A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana, Illinois ; Chicago, Illinois ; Springfield, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Spiritualism > United States > History > 19th century.
Republicanism > United States > History > 19th century.
Radicalism > United States > History > 19th century.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > General.
Radicalism
Republicanism
Spiritualism
Spiritismus
Republikanismus
Radikalismus
United States
USA
History
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Table of Contents:
  • America's 1848: Republican spirits in revolt
  • The soul of a republic
  • Free Democrats to the Republicans: radical spiritualists and the antislavery insurgency
  • The mystical union: the Republican medium of the national destiny
  • Father Abraham: president Lincoln and the spirit of the Union
  • The promise of a republic
  • Liberty: toward a rational spirit of freedom
  • Equality: race and gender
  • Fraternity: reconstructing a movement and the nation
  • Long shadows: the legacies of Civil War-era spiritualism.

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