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Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America's past, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new freedom, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery. With a canvas of extraordinary characters, such as P.T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, and L.C.Q. Lamar, Ecstatic Nation balances cultural and political history: it provides an account of the sectional conflict that preceded the Civil War, and it chronicles the complex aftermath of that war and Reconstruction, including the promise that women would share in a new…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2014HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061234583
- Other · English · 2013HarperCollins Publishers · 9780062278807
- Other · English · 2013Harper · 722 pages · 9780061234576
Territorial expansionAntislavery movementsReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)SlaveryCausesHistoryNew York Times reviewedSlavery, united states, history