| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Righteous Armies, Holy Cause: Apocalyptic Imagery and the Civil War. By Terrie Dopp Aamodt. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2002. xx, 236 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-86554-738-6.)

In a beautifully written, carefully researched monograph, Terrie Dopp Aamodt explores the development of apocalyptic postmillennial thought from the American Revolution through the Civil War. Like other commentators, Aamodt traces the origins of American apocalypticism back to the Puritans. She notes that during the American Revolution Samuel Hopkins identified slavery as the sin that might invoke the Almighty's wrath and cause him to allow the Patriots to lose their war for independence. Even though John Quincy Adams and William Lloyd Garrison furthered the use of antislavery apocalypticism, the concept remained on the political margins until 1852, when Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin popularized the concept among the Northern public. From 1852 to 1865, Aamodt argues, most Northerners, including Herman Melville and Theodore Parker, understood the antislavery cause (and the ensuing Civil War) in apocalyptic terms.

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