Thomas K. Beecher: Minister to a Changing America, 1824-1900

by Myra C. Glenn

This is the first full-length biography of the Reverend Thomas K. Beecher, a member of the most famous family of reformers in 19th-century America. Unlike his famous siblings, Thomas Beecher defended slavery on the eve of the Civil War and condemned the abolitionist, temperance, and women's rights movements. This account of his anti-reform views examines important, but relatively unexplored, questions in the historiography of antebellum reform: Why...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313298629
• ISBN13: 9780313298622
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"