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Canada and the United States

John W. Quist. Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 562. $57.50.

In exhaustive detail, John W. Quist examines two counties—Washtenaw, Michigan and Tuscaloosa, Alabama—and finds that residents in both places responded positively to the reform impulse of the antebellum era. As Quist notes, most studies of antebellum reform have focused on individuals who resided in the urban Northeast. The counties that Quist has selected for study were not devoid of urban development. Tuscaloosa in Tuscaloosa County and Ann Arbor in Washtenaw County became local centers of commerce and homes to the University of Alabama in 1831 and the University of Michigan in 1837. But both counties were removed from the cities of their region, Mobile and Detroit, and that fact permits Quist to focus on "the villages and countryside" (p. 4). With this new focus, Quist intends to test the thesis, advanced by many scholars over the last generation, that the cotton boom and the consequent expansion of slavery made the South an increasingly distinctive region antagonistic toward the free labor economy of the North. . . .

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