After forty years of study, Holland traces the growth of political and religious liberty from Napoleon through the peace that followed, the Democrats and Garrisonian abolitionists, emancipation and Reconstruction, Emerson and the Transcendentalists, the platform against the pulpit, and the evolutionists who changed the century’s thinking.
An optimistic liberal survey that counts victories more than defeats, from the 1890s free-thought movement. Download the free EPUB.