The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence by Susan M. Ryan

The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence

Susan M. Ryan

235 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Susan M. Ryan explores antebellum Americans' preoccupation with the language and practice of benevolence. Drawing on a variety of cultural and literary texts, she traces how people working and writing within social reform movements--and their outs...

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