| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Canada and the United States

Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 233. $29.95.

From early in the 1830s through the Civil War, the residents of Concord, Massachusetts, were divided over the issue of slavery. There were those who wished to turn their faces away from the issue, those who wanted to think about it, but not necessarily take concrete action, and those who joined William Lloyd Garrison's followers "to set this world right." Sandra Harbert Petrulionis has written a concise, sometimes overly detailed, but interesting, study of the development and activities of the antislavery movement in Concord from 1831 to 1868. It strives to accomplish several goals: trace the origins and development of the abolitionist movement in a town not immediately welcoming to such a movement; give credit to the abolitionist community, especially the women, for its commitment and bravery during the antebellum years; and place Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson into this historical context. In many ways, the author has accomplished her goals, but there are times when she stretches to make her case.

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