| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Chris Dixon. Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1997. Pp. xiii, 322. $45.00.

Chris Dixon's book is another reminder that a lively, growing body of scholarship in American history comes from elsewhere in the world. While some of that work clearly—and often quite productively—has the freshness of an outsider's perspective, Dixon's approach is more familiar to students of the American antislavery movement. Asserting that "concern for family life and gender relations stood at the center of the antebellum contest over slavery" (p. 21), he sets as a goal throwing "new light . . . both on abolitionism, and on nineteenth-century constructions of gender" (p. 10). Those are commendable objectives, even if the book's accomplishments are more modest. . . .

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