A literary and cultural examination of philanthropy in the Civil War era. This book points toward a less coercive and more egalitarian humanitarianism. Among the figures discussed are: the anti-philanthropic Henry David Thoreau; John Brown; African American writers Harriet Wilson and Harriet Jacobs; and Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott.
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