 | Howard Zinn - 1990 - 412 páginas
...didn't they -become Abolitionist leaders? "Social and economic leadership was being transferred from the country to the city, from the farmer to the manufacturer, from the preacher to the corporation attorney." Isn't this the story not only of the 1830's, but of the 1840's, 1850's, 1870's, 1890's, etc.—in fact... | |
 | Allan Smith - 1994 - 408 páginas
...830$ faced a strange and hostile world. Social and economic leadership was being transferred from the country to the city, from the farmer to the manufacturer, from the preacher to the corporation attorney ... Expecting to lead, these young people found no followers. They were an elite without a function,... | |
 | John R. McKivigan - 1999 - 424 páginas
...were victims of a status revolution which was transferring social and economic leadership "from the country to the city, from the farmer to the manufacturer, from the preach* er to the corporation lawyer" (Donald, 1966:33). Donald's argument is about abolitionist leaders,... | |
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Northeastern families, reared in a faith of aggressive piety and moral endeavor, educated for conservative leadership, these young men and women who reached maturity in the 1830's faced a strange and hostile world. Social and economic leadership was being... 