Black Hearts of Men
Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race
At a time when slavery was spreading and the country was steeped in racism, two white men and two black men overcame social barriers and mistrust to form a unique alliance that sought nothing less than the end of all evil. Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, John Stauffer braids together these men's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of slavery and oppression. Who could imagine that Gerrit Smith, one of the richest men in the country, would give away his wealth to the poor and ally himself with Frederick Douglass, an ex-slave? And why would James McCune Smith, the most educated black man in the country, link arms with John…
John Stauffer is chair and professor of the History of American Civilization at Harvard University and the award-winning author of The Black Hearts of Men and other books on the Civil War era, including Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Picturing Frederick Douglass
Celeste-Marie Bernier, John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, Epilogue by Henry Louis Gates, Afterword by Kenneth B. Morris
The Portable Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Picturing Frederick Douglass
John Stauffer;Henry Louis Gates Jr.-Foreward;Kenneth B. Morris-Afterword
Tribunal
John Stauffer
Abolitionist Imagination
Andrew Delbanco
The State of Jones
Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer
The Pathfinder
James Fenimore Cooper, John Stauffer, Thomas Berger
Black Hearts of Men
John Stauffer