Have you read Foner's Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men? That's a good introduction to Radical Republicanism in the 1850s and 1860s. The websites that put up books that are now public domain have been uploading all sorts of interesting texts -- first-hand accounts and contemporary writings from that time. I recommend going through some of those sites for pamphlets and articles about both the abolitionist movement and the more extreme fringes of the religious "Awakening" of the 1850s.
Seems like the latest incarnation of the old Lansing infoshop. Might be able to tell you more if I recognized more of the names.
Next next would be better. Just let me know when and where.
Sure. We can do that at some point. Am I to imply that you are coming to Detroit?
