| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. By John W. Quist. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xiv, 562 pp. $57.50, isbn 0-8071-2133-9.)

How different were the antebellum North and South? John W. Quist's book tackles this important question by studying benevolent reform, temperance, and abolition in two locations, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, and Washtenaw County, Michigan. In both places, he contends, reformers distributed Bibles and tracts, set up Sunday Schools, rallied to the temperance banner, and sought to inculcate the habits of self-discipline that propelled the market economy. Although southerners bridled at abolitionist critiques of slavery, they did not see behind every religious reform effort a conspiracy to destroy the peculiar institution. In ways that we have not previously appreciated, Quist maintains, northern and southern reformers deployed similar strategies and sought similar goals. . . .

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