Robert H. Abzug
Autor von Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
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Robert H. Abzug is professor of history and American studies and director of the liberal arts honors programs at the University of Texas at Austin.
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The author takes a psychoanalytical approach to understanding the motives of Weld. This is valid enough, but didn't appeal so much to me. Weld's shift from focus on a broad range of reform issues, such as temperance and Finney-like evangelism is an important milestone that could have received more attention. While Weld disagreed with the Garrisonians on including of women's rights on their platform, Weld was very clearly supportive of the pioneering emphasis advanced by the Grimke sisters, Sarah and his wife Angelina.
All that said, Abzug's unraveling of Weld's withdrawal in the 1840's from his overt activism, at least the intensity he formerly exhibited, was well-described, as are his later years from Eagleswood on.
I very much liked Benjamin Thomas's "Theodore Weld, Crusader for Freedom" and Gerda Lerner's "The Grimke Sisters of South Carolina".… (mehr)