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The Great Tide of Humanity: Race and Gender Reform in 19th Century Concord, Massachusetts

Henry David Thoreau and his fellow Transcendentalists sparked a literary revolution, 60 years after the American Revolution in the tiny town of Concord. Armed with the ideas of social reform, the Transcendentalists of Concord, the Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society, Thoreau women, and early Civil Rights Activist Ellen Garrison addressed the reform issues of the day — slavery, the aftermath of slavery, and women’s rights.

I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time, too.”

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