Beginning with his undergraduate career at Harvard and spanning the range of his adult life, the book examines the complex, often painful emotional journey inward that would eventually transform Emerson from an average Unitarian minister ...

In Virtue's Hero, Len Gougeon draws on a huge array of primary documents--unpublished speeches, the correspondence of abolitionists, family papers, records of abolition society meetings, and more--to offer a detailed and comprehensive ...

This book introduces Ralph Waldo Emerson's Transcendental philosophy to a modern reader.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies, ' a speech he gave in Concord, Massachusetts on August 1844, remains his most extensive and most important antislavery statement."--Page 622.

Also includes references to Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.