William Lloyd Garrison and American Abolitionism in Literature and Memory

Brian Allen Santana is an assistant professor of English at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown. He lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: William Lloyd Garrison and the Birth of American Abolitionism in History and Popular Culture

1. The Construction and Evolution of Garrisonian Narratives of Abolitionist Sacrifice in Antebellum America, 1834–1857

2. Commemorating Garrison: Origins of the Garrison Revival in ­Post-Bellum American Memory, 1867–1910

3. “For Future Generations”: Garrison’s Children, Massachusetts Educational Reform and the Institutionalization of the Garrison Narrative in Boston Schools, 1880–1922

4. Ross Lockridge’s Raintree County: American Abolitionism as Epic Origin Narrative

Epilogue: William Lloyd Garrison in the Mid–20th Century and Beyond

Chapter Notes

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