John Gorham Palfrey and the New England Conscience

by Frank Otto Gatell

The New England of his day regarded John Gorham Palfrey's life as blameless and exemplary, a nineteenth-century "monument to the Puritan ideal of rectitude." Yet he himself once called it "his personal tragicomedy." At least, it was diverse, for Palfrey had been historian, Harvard educator, Unitarian minister, Massachusetts politician, editor of the North American Review, and crusader against slavery, and himself an emancipator. During his lifetime,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674281594
• ISBN13: 9780674281592
• Release Date: February 1963
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"